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Bullying FAQ system. (laughter therapy) Violence has different forms: Physical and Psychological. Many safe guards have Bullying Wiki Bullying vs. Mobbing been put in place to prevent physical violence in our society but few if any exist to Interpretation and View on prevent psychological violence. Reality Manipulation - The Bullying Reporting System Psychological Harassment has many forms: the most common being verbal abuse. Workplace, The Media, Bullying Forum Some tactics aim at trying to humiliate or weaken the morale of individuals or Propaganda, Brainwashing Bullying Survey groups. An event or reality -> Mobbing interpretation of this event or Mobbing also referred to by some as Bullying, psychological terrorism, and reality -> reinforcement of http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/ (1 of 4) [1/24/2009 3:01:02 PM] Psychological Harassment (Bullying and Mobbing) Conclusion organizational violence is described as a collective form of psychological violence in interpretation and view on reality About Us which many individuals unite to persecute an individual by making constant more >> Feedback negative remarks, repeated criticism or sarcasm, intimidation, threats, Contact Us insinuations, try to humiliate, circulate false information concerning the individual, and to socially isolate the individual. Mobbing is a way of destroying a person News - Social rejection and Laws without using any physical means, a psychological war of nerves with wear the isolation is registered as pain by Links individual out tactics. A group attacks an individual's dignity, integrity, self-image, the brain. Portal (News) self-confidence, self-esteem, place in doubt of competence, threaten their careers, Social rejection and isolation and means of subsistence. registers as pain to a part of the Depression and brain, which registers physical Suicide Prevention One method used to induce distress or suffering in a person is by systematically pain, called the anterior cingulate isolating them from their peers. Stress Effects and cortex according to researchers who measured the neural reactions Stress Management After a few months some victims can suffer from psychiatric difficulties such as of people who thought they had paranoia, chronic fatigue, loss of self-esteem and self-confidence, and depression. Macromineral become outcasts in a game.

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bullied at school According to this report the psychiatrist Marie-France Hirigoyen, author of Le harcèlement moral : La violence perverse au quotidien, started a social debate in France in 1998 that resulted in a new law to penalize psychological harassment. Art L.122-49 alinea 1 du code du travail.

Psychological Harassment is viewed as direct or indirect tactics used to get rid of someone or to break them down psychologically and should not be confused with stress related to work performance.

After a few months some people can suffer from psychological problems. Some can react with hyper combativeness and can be classified as paranoid. Some suffer from chronic fatigue, low self-esteem, depression, loss of employment, and suicide.

Attacks to an individual's dignity, integrity, self-image, things that can be humiliating, can become destructive by their repetition.

Anyone can be a target of psychological harassment and there isn’t any particular psychological profile attached to it.

http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/ (2 of 4) [1/24/2009 3:01:02 PM] Psychological Harassment (Bullying and Mobbing) In some cases, the difficulty is that the attacks are subtle and leave few traces so when the person is targeted they are destabilized and do not know how to defend themselves. Radio Canada

Stalking the Soul: Emotional Abuse and the Erosion of Identity by Marie-France Hirigoyen, Helen Marx (Afterword), Thomas Moore (Translator)

From Publishers Weekly "Often, emotional abuse builds over a long period of time until it becomes so unbearable that victims lash out in frustration and anger, only to appear unstable and aggressive themselves. This, according to Hirigoyen, is the intent of many abusers: to systematically "destabilize" and confuse their victims (with irrational, threatening behavior that preys on the victim's fears and self-doubts), to isolate and control them and ultimately to destroy their identity." amazon.com

As stated above, psychological harassment can cause physical and psychological illness. Reports, statistics, and documents relating to how many people have suffered from burnouts, depression, suicide, and other illnesses caused by psychological harassment are hard to find.

Statistics on suicides are available. In some countries like Canada, suicide is the number one cause of death for men in different age groups. In the United States it is the third leading cause of death among those aged 15-24 and the second leading cause of death among those aged 25-34. We do not know what percentages of these suicides were caused by psychological harassment.

Mental disorders (particularly depression and substance abuse) are associated with more than 90% of all cases of suicide. However, suicide results from many complex socio cultural factors and is more likely to occur during periods of socio-economic, family and individual crisis (e.g. loss of a loved one, employment, honour).

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A few websites exist that claim that advanced technology is being used on people. The technology described can remotely induce pain, sexual stimulation, orgasms, and other sensations. Another technology described on these websites is about some kind of sound technology.

http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/ (3 of 4) [1/24/2009 3:01:02 PM] Psychological Harassment (Bullying and Mobbing) Victims from all over the world have contacted an organization called CAHRA Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse to report various forms of harassment and torture. Victims have reported the use of mind control and the use of advanced technologies. All the victims describe the technology as unbelievably sophisticated. One of the technologies described can induce different remote sensations on the body such as pain and sexual stimulation. The use of degrading themes such as pedophilia and homosexuality are also reported. Another technology described involves sound and is referred to as microwave hearing or voices in the head. Sleep deprivation and dream manipulation are also reported. Harassing manipulation of electronic equipment such as phone, TV, and computers are reported as well. Victims describe the mind control phenomena as cruel, debilitating, and compare it to mental rape. Many have been classified as psychologically ill and live in financial ruin.

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Degrading themes are often used to try to prevent people from coming forward.

When some people hear of psychological torture they often think of sleep depravation, repetitive sounds, and repetitive words. As already stated, psychological harassment and its many forms can have devastating effects on the victims, both physically and psychologically, and can induce a lot of suffering.

Strategies and tactics that are often used that victims can learn of are on the psychological manipulation page.

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Bullying Home Ivan Pavlov The origin of Bullying comes from a school yard bully that uses verbal threats, physical intimidation and aggressiveness on a Psychological weaker person. More recently its definition has become broader and Manipulation has taken more psychological attributes (non physical) of Degrading Themes harassment. People still tend to associate Bullying more to the Positivity physical and physical violence, perhaps because of their school Technology yard memories, but are becoming much more aware of its Advanced psychological attributes. Technologies The term bully or Bullying was then applied in the workplace to Words describe a supervisor that was verbally aggressive and threatening Sleep Deprivation towards employees or would use his position of authority or power Suicide Factors to abuse employees. All Videos Psychology Videos The term Bullying then expanded to encompass groups in the sense The Brain Video that a group could unite to bully an individual like or similar to the mobbing definition. Bullying Videos Bullying The definitions of Bullying usually always include threats, Bullying What To Do intimidation, aggressive behavior, and verbal abuse but may not Bullying Case Example always have all of the same psychological or mental attributes. Bullying FAQ Although their intention is similar they don’t always have the same Bullying Wiki definitions or scope. The definition or scope of some words used is also changing or the same word can have a different definition or Bullying vs. Mobbing scope in different laws or policies. Some words used are not as Bullying Reporting clear or obvious and can also be deceptive in a way. The definition System below may not apply to you and you should find out what your Bullying Forum workplace harassment policy or law includes. Bullying Survey Mobbing Workplace Bullying

Conclusion Workplace Bullying continues to expand its definition and includes About Us more psychological attributes that people might usually associate to Feedback terms such as psychological abuse, psychological harassment, Contact Us psychological manipulation, or psychological warfare as more Laws information is collected or published. Links Bullying is defined as direct or indirect verbal comments, actions, Portal (News) behavior, or tactics such as verbal abuse or psychological

Depression and manipulations that are used to harm an individual or an attempt to harm an individual. The Bullying acts do not need to be repetitive Suicide Prevention since a single act or event can have a serious or lasting effect. The use of threats or fear is common. The verbal abuse usually consists Stress Effects and of threats or personal attacks. For example the victim’s means of Stress Management subsistence or career can be threatened or the individual’s personal beliefs such as religion can be ridiculed. Examples of psychological Macromineral manipulation are to have an individual do a task that is below their Deficiencies and Acid- capabilities for the simple intention of humiliating them in front of

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Base Disorders their peers or to give an individual a highly repetitive task that is deprived of purpose. Another example is wearing the individual out Coercive Mind Control tactics that mainly consists of trying to induce as much stress on Tactics the person as possible. It’s also sometimes the intent to make the Bullying victim seem emotionally or psychologically unstable and to Psychological try to confuse or make them paranoid and aggressive. Harassment at Work Here are more examples: Tools & Docs Constant threats of dismissal or intimidation. Downloads Attempts to destroy or harm the person’s self-esteem or confidence. Terms of use Constant negative remarks or repeated criticism or sarcasm.

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Tasks that are ambiguous, contradictory, or that are deprived of purpose.

False insinuations, attacks to the individual's dignity, integrity, or self-image.

Attempts to humiliate or public humiliation.

Classical Conditioning can also be used (see Psychological Manipulation ) Negative Conditioning or A Constant State of Interrogation.

School Bullying

School Bullying is more associated to physical violence and physical threats then Workplace Bullying. School Bullying usually involves children trying to dominate each other through physical strength and threats of more physical violence. The actions are usually fighting, punching or hitting followed by threats of more the same treatment or abuse. Verbal abuse is also common such as name calling. The psychological attributes usually include fear and the loss of self-esteem.

Workplace Bullying and School Bullying Are Not The Same

Children and School Bullying will sometimes use Bullying to dominate or establish themselves in a hierarchy or simply because

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they have experienced or learned this behavior from other children or from an adult. Although their actions can be seen as an attempt to harm other children, they are not fully aware of the consequences of their actions and neither are some adults.

Workplace Bullying falls into a different category. There are many different reasons why Workplace Bullying is sometimes used such as the person wanting to dominate others, because they feel threatened, because they wish to get rid of the other person, and in some cases even darker motives. Unlike School Bullying, Workplace Bullying can include knowledge and tactics that are highly intentional and used to harm a person psychologically and physically (see Effects of Stress). For example the person doing the Bullying can try to induce as much stress as possible and use Psychological Manipulations that are aimed at destroying a person’s self-esteem, self-worth, and self-image. The effects can induce a depression that has a downward spiral which can lead to suicide or the victim can be pushed to or influenced to commit suicide and this falls into the category of murder. The perpetrators of this crime would probably assume that they are invulnerable due to the invisibility of the crime, the lack of information and knowledge, common medical professional practices, and the required proof.

You will find different tactics and psychological manipulations on the Psychological Manipulation page.

Cyber-Bullying

Cyber-Bullying is similar to Workplace Bullying and School Bullying but it is more visible due to the fact that it can leave an electronic trace or evidence. Cyber Bullying is done through communication technologies or the internet. The Bullying occurs in Chat rooms, Bulletin Boards, E-Mails, Websites, Instant Messages, and other available programs or communication systems. Similar to other categories of Bullying the victim can be harassed, humiliated, or threatened. Cyber Bullying has been more in the news lately due to the fact that an adult deceived and psychologically manipulated a 13 year old girl that resulted in the young girl’s suicide.

Parents: Cyber Bullying Led to Teen's Suicide

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The Microsoft internet explorer parental controls do have a lot of features that may surprise you and it is worth looking into and discovering them. Many online bulletin boards do have a code of conduct for their members. You will usually find them in the Rules section. When members do not follow the code of conduct they are warned, removed, or banned. With the awareness of cyber-bullying increasing more online bulletin board services are vigilant and enforcing these rules and those that do not will find that their use is diminishing.

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Conditioning your mind Negatively or Positively (see Ivan Pavlov)

Have you ever noticed that when someone is very negative and always complaining they may start to influence you and you may start to see only the negative events or negative side of things as they do?

The way you think can be conditioned and a person can also be psychologically manipulated to have a negative thinking pattern, to always see the negative side of things or expect the worse, or to see the negatives out of a situation or event reflexively instead of being open minded or thinking of the positives first.

A tactic often used is to also constantly interpret or expose the victim to negativity. In some cases it's used to induce or can lead to depression.

The opposite is also true. You can condition your mind to think positively or expect positive outcomes. It’s not easy at first and does require effort but eventually it can change and become almost automatic, reflexive, where you will be thinking positively instead of negatively. You may have heard these expressions: look on the bright side, put a positive spin on it or spin it positively. Try this exercise: Think of all the positives that you can imagine out of a

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situation or event and try to think of the possible positive outcomes first.

Act Happy (condition your mind happy)

Act the way you want to feel and soon you will feel the way you act.

This is common in self confidence building therapies or courses where you are asked to act the part of or like a confident person. You soon develop that skill or behavior which results in the person having more confidence. There is increasing evidence that acting enraged, obsessed, malevolent, or depressed maybe bad for you. Actor Leonard DiCaprio developed obsessive-compulsive disorder while playing Howard Hughes in the block buster The Aviator. This often happens to actors who get "caught up" in the role they play or keep many of the same character traits of the role they played. Heath Ledger who played the Joker in the Batman movie died and was allegedly clinically depressed. If you act having an enraged or angry conversation with someone, you will usually find that your emotions do get engaged even though you are simply acting the part.

When you are acting happy, you are thinking happy thoughts that go with the acting role you are playing, so it's like conditioning your mind to be happy.

Indirect Communication - State of Constant Interrogation (see Ivan Pavlov)

The group can begin by saying the individual's name, specific words, different sounds, and use other distracting actions to attract the individual's attention. The targeted individual realizes that the group is using some form of harassment and begins to listen to the group around him.

Using indirect communication the group can insult the target, attack the individual's dignity and integrity, ask questions, threaten, and continue to use specific words and sounds to attract the targeted individual’s attention.

The indirect communication is also a form of conditioning and can lead to psychological disorders in which the victim feels that he is in a constant state of interrogation. For example, the individual may go to a different environment and hear sounds, words, and questions. Because of the indirect communication and conditioning, the individual may feel that he is still in a state of interrogation and believe that individuals are trying to interact with him. Normally, people would usually simply “tune out” the sounds and conversations of other people.

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Conditioned Words - The Identification Word or Trigger Word (see Ivan Pavlov)

A tactic that is sometimes used on a victim is that the group doing the psychological harassment will start using a word, different actions can also be used, that is not commonly used to identify themselves and to identify themselves as being part of this group. Because the word is now associated to a group that is psychologically attacking the victim it can become threatening in the sense that the victim identifies an enemy, can expect a form of attack, or simply identifies and associates the word to the group and the repetitive attacks. The word is conditioned to a threat, the group and a possible coming attack.

Now that the victim has been conditioned to associate a threat, the group and the attacks, to an uncommon word, a more common word is used that is conditioned and associated in the same way to the same threat, an enemy or a possible coming attack. The word itself can also be associated to a threat, an indirect threat of physical violence for example, or a degrading theme that is not recognized by the general public which can increases the victims threat response. This can destabilize the victim further by confusing them and inducing more paranoia where the victim is wondering "who is who" "friend or foe" and can leave them responding more to more possible threats.

The conditioned word can become what some have termed a "trigger" word where the victim explodes in rage or to the threat and physically attacks an innocent and unaware person making them a victim of physical violence and making them both victims of this tactic and strategy.

Indirect Threats - Verbal Maneuvering to Hide Direct Threats

Sometimes a lot of verbal maneuvering and planning is used to hide or reduce the visibility and obviousness of a direct threat.

For example if a group makes subtle hints or insinuations about you being a homosexual for example, even though they probably know you are not, and then one of them says something like all homosexuals should be killed, it’s an indirect threat to you because of the maneuverings or it's less visible or obvious but it is still a direct threat to you.

As indicated on the home page, degrading themes are often used to prevent victims from coming forward and this is often the way they are used in combination with threats. The victim may have some reservations about claiming that he felt personally threatened by a threat that is made towards homosexuals. Other degrading

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themes, ethnics, and religions can also be used.

Social Queues - Rejection Hurts and can Lower Your Self- Esteem

Rejection hurts, registered as pain by the brain as mentioned on the home page, and rejection can be used in attempts to harm and also lower a person's self-esteem.

A person's self-esteem can be lowered or increased by conditioning the person to look only for certain social queues, disregard certain social queues, or by changing the meaning of certain social queues.

Smiling and laughter, social queues, are very important and also have very positive effects on the brain. A tactic often used is to try to condition, associate, negativity to the act of smiling and laughter.

Social queues like smiling indicates acceptance towards the person. A person can be conditioned to associate negativity such as a threat or rejection to a smile. If an individual is repetitively threatened or attacked by individuals that use a devilish or fake smile, that is then gradually reduced to a common smile while still engaging in this behavior, and combined with other tactics to induce paranoia, the result can be that the person will associate other peoples smiles to negativity because they are reminded of the behavior or because they are confused or uncertain as to its intention.

Laughter is associated to joy and acceptance also. Laughter is also a great stress and threat reducer.

A person can be conditioned to associate negativity such as threats, or sarcasm and ridicule using the same tactics, as described above, to laughter.

The desired emotion that victims are usually manipulated towards or led to is anger because of its negative health effects, instead of laughter.

Smiling and Acceptance (opposite of rejection)

The simple act of smiling releases endorphins in the brain. Both laughter and smiling are contagious. When you smile at someone they usually reciprocate with a smile and this is associated to acceptance and making a connection with someone. It's the opposite of rejection. Smiling also enhances peoples view of you. Some studies show that people who are depressed have weaker smiling muscles and advocate smiling therapy in which the person practices making the smiling facial expression with eyes wide open and reaps the same benefits as a normal smile.

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Try this exercise and see what results you get. Make the smiling expression with eyes wide open for a few seconds and then rub or massage your face and head for several seconds. Do not do this in front of a mirror if you will view yourself negatively and look for flaws. If you do it in front of a mirror while smiling and rubbing or massaging your face, think positive and loving thoughts. Its a quick relaxing endorphins fix and see how it affects your current thoughts.

Intrusive Thoughts - Inducing Degrading Images (Degrading Themes)

Degrading themes can be not only disturbing to a person but also threatening. They are used to attack a persons dignity, self-image, self-esteem, induce stress, and often used in combination with negative conditioning.

A group can try to make a targeted individual form degrading and perverse images by using combinations of words, descriptions, sounds, and actions. When degrading themes are used on individuals, the targeted individual can suffer from a psychological disorder that some psychologists have termed "intrusive thoughts".

Also, as stated on the first page, insinuations, even though they are false, can have different affects on an individual. Insinuations of being a pedophile, a homosexual, a criminal, a liar, etc. Is a form of attack on a person's self image, dignity and integrity, and can induce stress. One reaction that the victim can have when targeted is to have the feeling of "feeling guilty of something". Pedophilia is at the top of the list in hated things in our society and being labeled a pedophile has serious consequences. It would therefore explain why it is so often claimed to be used.

When degrading themes or different insinuations are used it can also be a form of "catch 22" if a person's claims of being psychologically harassed or targeted are dismissed and they are told that it is all in their heads. Why do you have thoughts of being a pedophile, a homosexual, why do you feel threatened by it, etc. Given the fact that psychiatry is often used to discredit the victims of psychological harassment or psychological warfare the psychological construction of a "catch 22" may work on some of the victims.

Another way degrading themes are used is to try to embarrass the victim or to repetitively humiliate the victim, because of the visible signs, such as blushing, or because of the degrading theme involved.

Degrading themes are often used to try to prevent people from coming forward and psychiatry is often used as a threat in the sense of building false profiles.

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Technology Home Ivan Pavlov In today’s corporate environment many tools exist to monitor phone calls, emails, internet usage, view the activities on Psychological individuals computer monitor, hidden microphones, and use hidden Manipulation cameras to monitor individuals physical activities. These tools are Degrading Themes usually used for quality control and corporate security. Most people Positivity understand the need for these tools. Technology Advanced Some people may feel that they are under constant surveillance and this is a form of harassment. Technologies

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Advanced Technologies Home Ivan Pavlov When Bullying or Mobbing is used, the person targeted can be diagnosed with a psychological disorder and this usually reduces or Psychological destroys a person’s credibility. Manipulation Degrading Themes A network or groups can be created that use Bullying or Mobbing Positivity technologies, a form of organized stalking. An individual's view on Technology reality can also be influenced. Advanced Advanced Technologies Technologies Words “Researchers at MIT media Lab Europe have already come up with Sleep Deprivation a design for a tooth implant that receives digital signals from radios Suicide Factors and mobile phones. All Videos A micro-vibration device and a wireless receiver (Blue tooth, Psychology Videos presumably) are implanted into a natural tooth during dental surgery. Sounds transmitted to the device are transferred from the The Brain Video tooth into the inner ear by bone resonance creating, claim its Bullying Videos designers, “pure sound streaming into the consciousness.” Ask your Bullying dentist for one today. Bullying What To Do Wireless implants will also have some serious applications, says Bullying Case Example Kuss Wiseman, a wireless product creation guru and consultant. He Bullying FAQ foresees “embedded drug-delivery and muscle-control devices that Bullying Wiki can be controlled wirelessly from remote medical facilities.”

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Coercive Mind Control When people are targeted by advanced technologies they may feel Tactics a sense of powerlessness "helplessness", the "who will believe you" factor. The more advanced the technologies used to target Psychological individual's become, the less likely they will be believed.

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Base Disorders Potassium is very important and involved in electrolyte balance. A low potassium level has many causes but one common cause is Coercive Mind Control adrenal gland disorder (eg, Cushing's syndrome). An over active Tactics adrenal gland caused by high levels of stress can release a hormone called aldosterone into the blood stream causing large Psychological quantities of potassium to be excreted into the urine. Aldosterone Harassment at Work also causes the excretion of magnesium into the urine. High levels of thyroid hormones also increases excretion of magnesium by the Tools & Docs kidneys into the urine. Alcohol also increases the excretion of Downloads magnesium.

Terms of use “In many adrenal disorders, such as Cushing’s syndrome (see Adrenal Gland Disorders: Cushing’s Syndrome), the adrenal glands

produce too much aldosterone, a hormone that causes the kidneys to excrete large amounts of potassium.” “the term Cushing’s syndrome denotes the clinical picture resulting from cortisol excess from any cause”. Cortisol is often refered to as the stress hormone.

Calcium and Magnesium are necessary for the brain, neurological function, the formation of bone and teeth, normal nerve and muscle function, normal functioning of many enzymes, and normal heart function and rhythm. Too much calcium can also cause a depletion in magnesium.

Potassium

Potassium is necessary for the normal functioning of cells, neurons (brain), nerves, and muscles. A potassium level that is too high or too low can have serious consequences such as an abnormal heart rhythm and can even stop the heart (cardiac arrest).

Hypokalemia is when the level of potassium in blood is too low. Potassium levels become low when too much is lost from the digestive tract or excreted in urine. other causes include adrenal disorders (induced by stress such as Cushing's syndrome). hypomagnesemia (low magnesium), vomiting, diarrhea, aldosteronism due to a tumor in the adrenal glands, Gitelman's syndrome, Liddle syndrome, Bartter syndrome, Fanconi syndrome, the use of diuretics, an overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism), and Insulin.

Symptoms: A decrease in potassium can cause fatigue, muscle weakness, muscle cramps, muscle aches and pains, twitches (tetany), secures, complications of the heart and abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias).

Hyperkalemia is when the level of potassium in blood is too high. Kidney disorders and drugs that affect kidney function can cause hyperkalemia. Adrenal disorders caused by stress such as Addison’s

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disease, under active adrenal glands, can also cause hyperkalemia. Hyperkalemia can develop after a large amount of potassium is released from the cells. The rapid movement of potassium from cells into blood can overwhelm the kidneys and result in life- threatening hyperkalemia.

Calcium

“the body moves calcium out of bones into blood as needed to maintain a steady level of calcium in the blood. If people do not consume enough calcium, too much calcium is mobilized from the bones, weakening them. Osteoporosis can result.”

Hypocalcemia is when the calcium level in blood is too low. Hypocalcemia most commonly results when too much calcium is lost in urine. (corticosteroids) A low calcium level may result from malnutrition, kidney disorders, parathyroid glands, certain drugs, hypomagnesemia (low magnesium) which reduces the activity of parathyroid hormone, vitamin D deficiency, disorders that decrease calcium absorption, and corticosteroids (synthetically prepared to have the same action as cortisol (cortisone)).

Hypercalcemia is when the calcium level in blood is too high. People can develop hypercalcemia if they take calcium-containing antacids or very high daily doses of vitamin D that increases calcium absorption.

Symptoms: Hypocalcemia and Hypercalcemia can affect the brain and may cause neurologic and psychological symptoms, such as confusion, memory loss, emotional disturbances, depression, delirium, hallucinations, constipation, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, seizures, coma, kidney stones, muscle weakness, muscles aches and pain, muscle spasms (tetany), heart complications and abnormal rhythms, and possibly result in death.

Magnesium

Hypomagnesemia is when the level of magnesium in blood is too low. Hypomagnesemia may result from malnutrition, kidneys or intestine excrete too much magnesium, consuming large amounts of alcohol, diarrhea, high levels of aldosterone (stress and adrenal gland disorders), antidiuretic or thyroid hormones, diuretics, and breastfeeding (some women experience depression after birth).

Symptoms: Hypomagnesemia can affect the brain and may cause neurologic and psychological symptoms, such as confusion, sleepiness, memory loss, emotional disturbances, depression, delirium, hallucinations, seizures (especially in children), nausea,

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vomiting, muscle weakness, muscles aches and pain, muscle spasms and tremors (tetany), abnormal heart rhythms, and possibly result in death.

Hypermagnesemia is when the level of magnesium in blood is too high. Hypermagnesemia usually develops only when people with kidney failure are given magnesium salts or take drugs that contain magnesium such as some antacids or laxatives.

Symptoms: Hypermagnesemia may cause weakness, low blood pressure, and impaired breathing. When hypermagnesemia is severe, the heart can stop beating.

Acid-Base Balance

A pH of 7.0 is neutral. Blood is normally slightly basic with a pH range of 7.35 to 7.45. Below < 7.35 the blood is considered acidic. Above > 7.45 the blood is considered alkaline.

An important property of blood is its degree of acidity or alkalinity. The body's balance between acidity and alkalinity is referred to as acid-base balance. An imbalanced pH can cause low energy levels, cause weight gain, premature aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and many other health problems. "If pH becomes too acid or too alkaline, cells become poisoned by their own toxic waste and die". Body acidity increases when the level of acidic compounds in the body rises due to the increased intake, production, or decreased elimination of acid compounds or when the level of basic (alkaline) compounds in the body falls due to decreased intake, production, or increased elimination of alkaline compounds. Body alkalinity increases with the opposite processes. Even a minor deviation from the normal range of acid-base balance can severely affect many organs.

The body’s pH buffer systems are combinations of the body's own naturally occurring weak acids and weak bases. The pH buffer systems work chemically to minimize changes in the pH of the body and to adjusting the proportion of acid and base.

The body regulates the acidity of the blood by four buffering mechanisms:

Bicarbonate buffering system. Intracellar buffering by absorption of hydrogen atoms by various molecules such as proteins, phosphates, and carbonate in bone. Respiratory compensation Renal compensation

There are two abnormalities of acid-base balance.

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Acidosis, the blood has too much acid or too little base resulting in a decrease in blood pH. Alkalosis, the blood has too much base or too little acid resulting in an increase in blood pH. Acidosis and alkalosis are not diseases but rather are the result of a wide variety of disorders.

Acidosis

Acidosis is excessive blood acidity caused by an overabundance of acid in the blood or a loss of base (bicarbonate) from the blood (metabolic acidosis). Some bicarbonate compounds include potassium carbonate and calcium carbonate. Another cause of acidosis is the buildup of carbon dioxide in the blood that results from poor lung function or slow breathing (respiratory acidosis).

Metabolic acidosis

Metabolic acidosis can occur as a result of abnormal metabolism. Some causes include the accumulation of ketones and lactic acid, diabetic ketoacidosis (buildup of ketones). The loss of bases such as bicarbonate. The most common causes of metabolic acidosis are ketoacidosis, lactic acidosis, renal failure, and toxic ingestions.

Ketoacidosis is a common complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus, and can also be caused by diabetes, chronic alcoholism, malnutrition, and fasting. Lactic acidosis (physiologic processes and exogenous toxins) can be caused by the buildup of lactic acid such as happens in shock, primary hypoxia due to lung disorders, seizures, carbon monoxide, cyanide, iron. Toxins metabolized to acids can be caused by alcohol, methanol, ethylene glycol, paraldehyde, and salicylates. Kidney failure or renal tubular acidosis (a form of kidney malfunction). Other causes are hypoaldosteronism, hyperkalemia (high potassium), Toluene.

Ketoacidosis is caused by high concentrations of ketone bodies acetoacetic and B-hydroxybutyrate. In ketoacidosis, the body fails to adequately regulate ketone production causing such a severe accumulation of keto acids that the pH of the blood is substantially decreased (acidic). The presence of high blood sugar levels, hyperglycemia, can lead to further acidity in the blood. Ketoacidosis is a common complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus, but it also occurs with chronic alcoholism, malnutrition, and, to a lesser degree, fasting. In these conditions, the body converts from glucose to free fatty acid (FFA) metabolism; FFAs are converted by the liver into ketoacids, acetoacetic acid, and β-hydroxybutyrate (all unmeasured anions). Ketoacidosis is also a rare manifestation http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/macromineral_and_acid_base_disorders.htm (6 of 10) [1/24/2009 3:02:08 PM] Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid-Base Disorders

of congenital isovaleric and methylmalonic acidemia. (Stress -> Cortisol-> Glucose-> Hyperglycemia-> Ketoacidosis (Acidosis))

Lactic acidosis is a condition caused by the buildup of lactic acid in the body. The cells produce lactic acid when they use glucose for energy in the absence of adequate oxygen. Lactic acidosis may be caused by diabetic ketoacidosis, liver disease, kidney disease, or drugs such as anti-diabetic drugs. Lactic acidosis results from overproduction, decreased metabolism, or both, of lactate. Lactate accumulation results from a combination of excess formation and decreased utilization of lactate. Excess lactate production occurs during states of anaerobic metabolism. The most serious form occurs during the various types of shock. Decreased utilization generally occurs with hepatocellular dysfunction from decreased liver perfusion or as a part of generalized shock. Lactate is a normal byproduct of glucose and amino acid metabolism. The most serious form of lactic acidosis, type A, occurs when lactic acid is overproduced in ischemic tissue to generate ATP during O2 deficit. Overproduction typically occurs during tissue hypoperfusion in hypovolemic, cardiac, or septic shock and is worsened by decreased lactate metabolism in the poorly perfused liver. It may also occur with primary hypoxia from lung disease and with various hemoglobinopathies. Excess lactate can be caused by anaerobic metabolism occurring in muscle cells during strenuous exercise.

Symptoms: People with metabolic acidosis may have nausea, vomiting, fatigue, weakness, palpitations, chest pain, cardiac complications, arrhythmias, muscle pain, bone pain, osteoporosis, drowsiness, psychological symptoms such as confusion, deeper and faster breathing, low blood pressure, shock, neurological complications, coma, and death.

Respiratory acidosis

Lung disorders, such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, severe asthma, pneumonia, or pulmonary edema. Sleep-disordered breathing (sleep apnea). Diseases of the nerves or muscles of the chest that impair breathing, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Overdose of drugs such as alcohol, oversedation from opioids (narcotics) or strong drugs that induce sleep (sedatives).

Symptoms: People with respiratory acidosis may have slow breathing, headaches, psychological symptoms such as confusion, drowsiness that can lead to stupor and coma.

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of bicarbonate in the blood or a loss of acid from the blood (metabolic alkalosis), or by a low level of carbon dioxide in the blood that results from rapid or deep breathing (respiratory alkalosis).

An overactive adrenal gland or adrenal gland disorders caused by stress such as Cushing's syndrome, the loss of acid from vomiting or drainage of the stomach, the use of diuretics (thiazides, furosemide, ethacrynic acid). Other common causes include hypovolemia and hypokalemia (low potassium).

“loss of potassium sufficient to cause metabolic alkalosis may result from an overactive adrenal gland.” “metabolic alkalosis can develop when excessive loss of potassium affects the kidney’s ability to control the blood’s acid-base balance.”

Treatment: Doctors usually treat metabolic alkalosis by replacing water and electrolytes (potassium) while treating the cause.

Respiratory alkalosis

Some common causes of respiratory alkalosis are anxiety, fever, pain, and low levels of oxygen in the blood. Respiratory alkalosis develops when rapid, deep breathing (hyperventilation) causes too much carbon dioxide to be expelled from the bloodstream. The most common cause of hyperventilation, and thus respiratory alkalosis, is anxiety.

Metabolic alkalosis

Metabolic alkalosis develops when the body loses too much acid from vomiting or when stomach acids are removed. Metabolic alkalosis can develop when excessive loss of sodium or potassium affects the kidneys' ability to control the blood's acid-base balance. For instance, loss of potassium sufficient to cause metabolic alkalosis may result from an overactive adrenal gland.

Some causes are gastric acid loss, congenital chloridorrhea, villous adenoma, primary hyperaldosteronism , secondary hyperaldosteronism, bartter syndrome, gitelman's syndrome, diuretics, hypokalemia (low potassium) and hypomagnesemia (low magnesium), posthypercapnic, postorganic acidosis, milk- alkali syndrome (calcium antacids), carbohydrate refeeding after starvation, sweat loss in cystic fibrosis, laxative abuse, and some antibiotics.

Symptoms Alkalosis: Alkalosis may cause fatigue, irritability, muscle twitching, muscle cramps, muscle spasms (tetany), muscle weakness, seizures, hypocalcemia (low calcium) and subsequent headache, and neuromuscular excitability, psychological symptoms such as confusion and delirium, anginal symptoms and http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/macromineral_and_acid_base_disorders.htm (8 of 10) [1/24/2009 3:02:08 PM] Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid-Base Disorders

arrhythmias.

Cushing's Syndrome

“In Cushing’s syndrome, the level of corticosteroids is excessive, usually from overproduction by the adrenal glands.” “Cushing’s syndrome is a constellation of clinical abnormalities caused by chronic high blood levels of cortisol or related corticosteroids.” “the term Cushing’s syndrome denotes the clinical picture resulting from cortisol excess from any cause” High corticosteroid levels over time raise the blood pressure (hypertension), weaken bones (osteoporosis), and diminish resistance to infections (immune suppression). The risk of developing kidney stones, glucose intolerance, diabetes, mental disorders, depression, and hallucinations. When Cushing’s syndrome is suspected, Doctors measure the levels of cortisol, the main corticosteroid in the blood.

Sleep Deprivation and Stress

Stress -> Cortisol-> Glucose-> Hyperglycemia-> Ketoacidosis (Acidosis)

Hyperglycemia is When blood glucose levels keep rising to dangerous levels. Sleep deprivation causes the central nervous system to become more active and this inhibits the pancreas from producing adequate insulin, the hormone used to control glucose levels in the blood. In one research study, the study subjects sleeping hours were restricted to 4 hours a night "In healthy young men with no risk factor, in one week, we had them in a pre-diabetic state," says researcher Van Cauter. The young and healthy males had glucose levels that were no longer normal and showed a rapid deterioration of the body's functions which reduced the bodies ability to manage glucose. Some studies have concluded that sleep deprivation can slow glucose metabolism by as much as 30 to 40%. Sleep deprivation alone can also cause a high increase in cortisol levels, which can lead to hardening of the arteries, which can lead to or cause a heart attack. High levels of cortisol can also cause hypertension, muscle loss, increase fat storage, bone loss (osteoporosis), memory loss, depression, insulin resistance, and lowers the growth hormone (tissue repair), testosterone levels, and glycogen synthesis. Sleep deprivation also causes the depletion of neurotransmitters in the brain resulting in irritability, mood swings, or a lack of control on emotions.

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needs to be corrected. When blood glucose continues to increase the body goes into an energy crisis and starts to break down fat as an alternate energy source. As the fat is burned ketones are produced in the blood and as the ketones levels rise the blood becomes more acidic (ketoacidosis). A diet high in sugar can also contribute to acidic blood. High levels of glucose in the blood can also slow down the cholesterol LDLs and make them sticky which makes them build up much faster on the blood vessel walls.

High levels of stress and sleep deprivation can be a deadly combination.

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Bullying Reporting A person putting their affairs in order and giving away prized System possessions is also a factor. A suicide in the family is also a factor. Bullying Forum Bullying Survey Many research articles claim that long periods of stress can cause Mobbing depression and that sleep deprivation (insomnia) can also cause or Conclusion lead to depression. Like stress it’s self, sleep deprivation also weakens the person’s immune system. About Us Feedback Psychological harassment is usually associated to long periods of Contact Us stress, loss of self-esteem, and depression. Laws Links Psychological harassment victims can also often have many of the factors that are associated to suicide: Portal (News) Psychological harassment can induces a lot of stress on the victim. Depression and The victim can suffer from A Anxiety and insomnia. A victim of Suicide Prevention psychological harassment can have dramatic M Mood Changes due to the level of stress involved. Sleep deprivation can also cause Stress Effects and the victim to start losing control on their emotions and not just Stress Management simple irritability that most people are familiar with. It also weakens the mind. Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid- When the means of subsistence of the victim are threatened or

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When a victim is subjected to psychological harassment they may also become paranoid and hyper combative or aggressive. This may cause them to withdraw or isolate themselves from colleagues and others. Classical conditioning can also be used to associate different threats to different things or induce different psychological disorders that can also induce more paranoia and withdrawal. Systematically isolating the victim is also another tactic used in psychological harassment and can also be threatening and induce paranoia. Using psychological manipulation the victim’s beliefs or view on reality, I Ideation, can also be manipulated or changed.

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In some cases the victim of psychological harassment can turn to or increase the use of S Substance Abuse to self medicate or help them deal with the situation. Many people also mistakenly believe that some substances like alcohol may help them sleep better.

When a person loses their employment all of a sudden they may feel that they are not contributing in some way or have a sense of P Purposelessness.

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If you have some of these factors or simply want more information you can call one of the hotlines on the links page. suicide.org - Suicide Prevention Information and Suicide Prevention Hotlines (many countries) suicidepreventionlifeline.org - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

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Conditioning your mind Negatively or Positively Bullying Bullying Survey Bullying Forum Rejection Hurts The Never Ending Test Bullying Reporting System Intrusive Thoughts (Degrading Themes) News & Articles Portal Ambiguities - Self Doubt and Uncertainties Tell Your Friends Metaphorical Speech – Hidden Threats Awareness & Prevention Responsibility and Vulnerability Health - Safety - Productivity Ideation used to Manipulate Victims Credibility and Psychological Warfare Covert Type Investigations Fear of Fear and Attacks to the Honor View on Reality Manipulation The Brain Home Ivan Pavlov Have you ever noticed that some people have all the talent in the world to become super star athletes but don't succeed because of their lack of determination or training and knowledge but other less Psychological talented athletes do succeed because of their persistence, determination, discipline, training, and knowledge. Manipulation Degrading Themes The same is true for the brain. The brain is plastic and you can literally "upgrade" your brain. Positivity

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When you learn new information and new skills your brain changes. Learning to learn is very important and not every one learns the same way. Some styles are better than others for different people. For example some people need to see the whole picture in order to start absorbing the information properly while others need more of a step by step approach. It's important that you work on your learning skills and identify what works best for you quickly in order to make it as efficient, easy, and enjoyable as possible.

Learning a new musical instrument like the piano and a variety of different songs work the memory but also many other important parts of the brain. Many studies have show that music works and exercises more then just the memory, it also exercises parts of the brain used for mathematics, spatial intelligence, pattern recognition, and much more.

A study conducted in the US showed that the group of applicants most likely to be admitted to medical school is made up of music majors and that music majors scored highest on reading tests. It also showed that after three years of piano instruction students pattern recognition and mental representation scores improved significantly. Music participants received more academic honors and awards than non-music students. One study showed that the IQ effect got a boost when children around the age of six years old received piano and voice lessons. Another study showed that high school music students scored higher on SATs in both verbal and math than their peers who did not study music. A study conducted on seniors showed that those who played the piano or a musical instrument and engaged in social activities maintain their cognitive abilities longer.

Learning new skills, new subjects, new games, and playing a variety of games, improving your skill level and intensity, pushing yourself and your comfort zone to learn things that are not familiar to you and that are different will all help to enhance your brain. More examples of skills you can learn are learning a http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/the_brain.htm (2 of 3) [1/24/2009 3:02:18 PM] The Brain new sport or a new dance, a new language, more vocabulary, and a new musical instrument.

You can also improve or train your logical thinking, creativity, strategic and analysis thinking, problem and puzzle solving skills, pattern recognition and detection, power of deduction, categorizing and comparing skills.

The brain changes or can be changed. Other example are the cab drivers, see the above video, who's brain memory areas have increased in size and in another study people who had been sleep deprived brain MRI was similar to that of a psychotic person. Psychological disorders, like depression, can also be induced.

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If you are concerned that cell phone microwave emissions may cause cancer you should consider purchasing a Bluetooth device. A bluetooth device is about 100 times less powerful then the microwave emissions from a cell phone. A few inches away from your body do also make a difference. Another habit that you should consider is to wear the Bluetooth device only when driving or taking a call.

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Bullying What To Do Home Ivan Pavlov The first thing you have to do is remain calm.

Psychological It’s not always easy to remain calm when your means of substance, Manipulation that you and your family depend on, are threatened or when your Degrading Themes career is threatened but this is what you need to do. When Positivity Psychological Harassment, Bullying, or Mobbing is used and you are Technology threatened, you can become suspicious or paranoid and this is also Advanced sometimes the intention of the people using these psychological Technologies tactics. So you also need to control these thoughts and paranoia. It is also sometimes the intention to make you seem emotionally or Words psychologically unstable and you also need to control your Sleep Deprivation emotions such as fear and anger. Suicide Factors All Videos The battle field is a psychological one and not a physical one. Psychology Videos The Brain Video Do not expect the people using these tactics, knowledge and technologies to attack you physically or verbally threaten you with Bullying Videos physical harm such as a death threat, these are recognized crimes. Bullying They will use psychology or psychological manipulations to threaten Bullying What To Do you to induce stress and to try to destroy your self-esteem and self- Bullying Case Example confidence for example. Bullying FAQ Bullying Wiki Do not let the behavior of others influence or change yours Bullying vs. Mobbing unless you believe it to be in a positive or constructive way.

Bullying Reporting If you believe people are conspiring against you, spreading rumors, System trying to sabotage your work, or trying to upset you do not try to Bullying Forum do the same and do not treat them in an aggressive, angry, rude, Bullying Survey or threatening manner. Remain calm, composed, and respectful. Mobbing You can discuss the issue and this usually clears up Conclusion misunderstanding. About Us You need to read and learn as much as you can about Feedback Psychological Harassment, Bullying, and Mobbing. Contact Us Laws By reading more about Psychological Harassment, Bullying, and Links Mobbing you will be better able to understand how you are being Portal (News) psychologically manipulated or harmed and what the tactics, knowledge and technologies being used against you are. You will be Depression and able to more easily identify them and explain or describe them to Suicide Prevention other people such as a Human Resource representative and also find out what laws or policies apply to you. This brings us to the Stress Effects and next thing that you need to do. Stress Management You need to keep a journal of events that you believe where

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Base Disorders You may be asked to undergo a psychological evaluation at one point and it is still common practice for psychiatrists to tell victims Coercive Mind Control of Bullying that they have thoughts of persecution, paranoid Tactics delusion, stress and anxiety, burn out, feel depressed or are depressed due to a chemical imbalance and that by taking Psychological medication these ideas or thoughts will go away. This is why you Harassment at Work need to keep a journal of events. You need to document what was said, what the actions were, how they were interpreted by you and Tools & Docs how they made you feel, date, time, location, and who else was Downloads present. You can then use this journal to discuss these events with this medical professional and help them get a clearer understanding Terms of use or make a better evaluation of your situation. It’s also true that the skill level of the people using these kinds of tactics or strategies can be lower or higher than others and that the tactics may

become harder to document because they are not as obvious or more subtle. The psychological construction of what is called “catch 22’s” can also be used such as false accusations or degrading themes (see Psychological Manipulation). This tactic is an obvious one for people familiar with Psychological Harassment or Manipulation.

You need to protect your brain and body. The attacks are psychological but they do have a physical effect on the brain and body.

When you are going through the phenomenon of Bullying it can be very stressful. Over a long period of time it can have serious consequences on your health. You need to take the proper actions, nutrition and exercise, to protect and reduce the effects on your brain and body. For example short duration interval training of 20 minutes, walking 2 minutes and running 30-60 seconds, can counter act the cortisol and stress in your body by releasing chemicals, oxygenating your brain, reducing anxiety, and returning your body to a relaxed state. (see Reducing Stress)

Take action when you believe there may be a problem and do not procrastinate.

If you believe your supervisor has started to use Bullying tactics and is now overloading your workload for example, you need to address the situation by speaking to this supervisor and discuss why you believe you will not be able to achieve a deadline and how or when you may be able to accomplish the given task. Do not wait for the deadline to address the issue and then claim that it was an unrealistic demand. If someone engages in unwanted behavior you should let them know that it is unwanted or not appropriate as soon as possible.

Do not isolate yourself or let yourself be isolated.

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Discuss the issue of Psychological Harassment, Bullying, Mobbing, and what is happening to you with friends, family members, other medical professionals or psychologists, legal representatives, your union, labor organizations, political representative and anyone else that you can think of that would be able to give you information, advice, or help. This is the last thing that the people using these kinds of technologies, tactics, and strategies would want you to do and by doing this you help promote awareness of this topic.

Observe and analyze your behavior.

How have you been affected, how has your behavior changed, why did your behavior change, is this change positive, constructive, or a change that you want , was this change the intention of the psychological manipulation, how will you correct, change, or prevent this behavior.

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Technologies Email Received: Words Sleep Deprivation I want to mention a tactic I believe was used against me here at Suicide Factors work. Tell me what you think. This one particular employee would All Videos stand to the side of me or behind me and stare at me continuously Psychology Videos (let’s say anywhere from 30 seconds to a few minutes). He would only stop when I would return his stare. I soon started doing the The Brain Video same to him and he now doesn't do this anymore. Bullying Videos Bullying Was he purposely trying to induce paranoia? Bullying What To Do Bullying Case Example Email Response:

Bullying FAQ How do you know he was staring at you if he is standing behind Bullying Wiki you? Bullying vs. Mobbing Bullying Reporting Standing behind a person and talking or whispering threats is a System tactic and usually a serious one but this isn’t what’s happening.

Bullying Forum I don’t think this person is trying to induce paranoia in any way. Bullying Survey You are not in a psychological war and there are no other Mobbing psychological manipulations used. Who is this person and has Conclusion anything else happened in the past? About Us It’s common for people to stare at other people for a great number Feedback of reasons. Why don’t you ask him the next time? Not in an angry Contact Us fashion but just “hey, how come you’re always starring at me?” Laws don’t assume negative or bad intentions. Links Portal (News) Email Received:

Depression and I know what I know and this guy would repeatedly stare at me, I Suicide Prevention would describe it as eyes burning a hole in my back! He would also do it in my peripheral vision and so I knew for a fact he was doing

Stress Effects and it. No one else would do it but him and like I said he got a taste of his own medicine a few times and now he's stopped doing it, Stress Management coincidence? And yes other things have happened in the past too.

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Base Disorders presence (it is the only word they taught me in this foreign language)... coincidence? I'm not saying that there is this big Coercive Mind Control conspiracy against me, but these were tactics used against me Tactics during my first 2 years of employment here. Most of them have stopped. And as for saying something in response to being stared Psychological at, I would say stuff like 'what do you want' or 'how can I help you'. Harassment at Work Email Response: Tools & Docs If it is true and the intent is used to induce paranoia don’t let these Downloads ideas get the better of you. You need to control these ideas and the paranoia that is tried to be induced. See the What To Do page and Terms of use there is a part about paranoia.

I don’t really believe that this person is really using these tactics. It could be a number of different things. You don’t know what this person is thinking. Maybe he is trying to annoy you. Maybe he does know it’s bothering you but I doubt that he thinks he’s inducing paranoia or trying to induce paranoia.

People do stare at other people all the time.

As for behind your back, I meant literally stand behind you and whispering threats.

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The paranoia isn't that bad, perhaps the word 'makes me more self- conscious' would have been better. Yes they weren't death threats said behind my back but after hearing the words "no good" in your presence a couple a hundred times (literally) you would begin to wonder. I don't believe that threats have to be vicious to inflict harm on someone!

Yes there is always the benefit of the doubt that these acts were not deliberate. However, after repeated gestures and using different tactics, I am 100% certain these tactics were deliberate. The people I work with are not stupid; most of them have a PhD or medical degree from other countries.

There are many other ways to induce paranoia and psychological harm on people that aren't mentioned on your website. One of them is staring as I spoke about. Like I said, I did it to him many times now and I know he doesn't like it and so he stopped doing it to me. Maybe this isn't easy for you to understand and I wouldn't want you to be subjected to it either. And what can bother one person may not bother somebody else. For example, dragging ones feet on the floor can be bothersome to some people but not to others. Further, someone may feel that the other person is deliberately dragging their feet to annoy them. However, dragging of the feet is a bad habit and done everywhere and at all times, it is

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not intent on one person. I hope you understand what I'm trying to convey.

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Ok, let me know what else they’ve done.

If they taught you and know you understand the foreign words “no good” and keep repeating it near you and aimed at you indirectly or indirect insinuation it probably is an attempt to attack your self- esteem.

If they have started using these tactics read the What To Do page and create your journal but don’t change your behavior, or try to do the same, and try not to let it affect you. Expose their incompetence and the fact they are cutting corners in your lab. Use HR to voice your concerns about the lab procedures and quality control. Etc..

If they are using these tactics to induce paranoia it’s to make you look unstable or look bad if you plan on filing a complaint. Maybe they want to put themselves up as the dominate lab group. “do it our way or we are the bosses”. Expose their incompetence, you do work there and if the reputation of the lab is harmed it can also harm you since you worked there. If you see a problem with quality control or see them cutting corners let HR know and the manager as well. Keep the emails you send them.

Trying to associate threats or negativity to common gestures is a tactic or psychological manipulation. It’s called classical conditioning. It’s used to induce disorders such as paranoia and to discredit the victim.

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Apparently (as informed by a colleague who interviewed her) there was a woman of the same ethnic and nationality who also applied for the position I currently hold. She didn’t get the job, I aced the interview and she didn’t (she couldn’t answer the simplest questions about PCR!). These lab people wanted her there and so too did the lab director (one day he actually told me that this woman had more experience than I did). It’s a good thing these guys weren’t the ones making the final decision in hiring.

During my first two years of work, the lab people of this same ethnic and nationality kept telling me to find a better job, that there was more out there for me. So this plus the tactics makes a clear picture that they want their own person in there. I was also told by the lab director that my job there was temporary.

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real nice and then commit to these behaviors?

I do document irregularities.

You learn soon in life that having good intentions at work isn't enough. I went there hoping to make a difference, for the good, help society. But soon work politics and psychological harassment takes place. I guess that’s how it is.

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Who hired you and made the final decision to over ride all these people and what they wanted?

Is your position permanent or temporary?

Don’t let this nice to bizarre behavior act fool you. It’s really just used to confuse and manipulate you. To leave you wondering why they are acting this way or doing this.

First they gave you hints that they didn’t want you there. And then probably started with subtle bizarre behavior to let you know something was going on to make you paranoid and seem unstable. They taught you one word “no good” and used it and did the staring thing. What else have they done? Try to remember.

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I've been there for over 4 years now. The lab director is not of this ethnic and nationality, but the lab workers of this group are of the same ethnic and nationality and really like him (apparently he gave them a big raise, overtime hours and work premiums i.e. $).

I was interviewed by a genetics’ councilor who used to work in the lab (apparently she didn't get along well with one of those guys) and by a fellow lab technologist. I'm assuming she had the final decision.

The position is permanent.

The only word they taught me was this word “no good”. When I started saying “hello” in this language, they told me that people don't say this (I get the impression the only word they wanted me to know was “no good”).

Yes his nice act is confusing. One minute he's nice and the next he's coughing phlegm and gob all over the place. This was a tactic he repeatedly used. I'll try to describe it the best I can. He (and the other employee of this group) would clear the phlegm from their throat whenever they would approach me, whether it was in the lab, coffee room or bathroom. At first I wasn’t sure whether they

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had TB or were trying to annoy me. Then I realized they would do it directly behind me. Also, they only seemed to do it when they were close to me and never far from me, say down the hall. I was continuously bombarded with those noises.

No staring in a long time and no “no good” said in a long time. It's like they’ve given up on trying to get rid me.

Our positions in the lab are rotated after a period of time. My position hasn’t been rotated in several years.

Other tactics include trying to belittle me in front of newcomers. He once introduced me as “this is a lab technician” and then introducing the other lab technician from our lab as “this is our very best lab technician so and so.” He would also ask me personal questions like 'do I go to massage parlors?' or 'you are (an ethnic or nationality), you must snort coke right?' or telling me that 'homosexuals should be killed' (what if I was gay).

The lab director also did a few strange things. He once asked me if I can get him some pot (I said no of course). He also mentioned that he smokes every night but that he should quit. He also took me out for coffee once to confide in me that he has a terrible crush on the lab secretary. After an AIDS awareness meeting we both attended, he asked me to come over his house, hit the hot tub and sleep over (just the two of us?).

I know many of these arguments must sound silly but I would take work real seriously and these types of questions and scenarios were demeaning.

This is all that comes to mind for the moment, I'm sure there is more that will pop in my head while sleeping tonight.

As for cutting corners this is not allowed. What you can do however is try new procedures to cut time and if these work, change the protocol so that it becomes official.

I hope this doesn't sound too off the wall.

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This does not sound off the wall at all.

These are tactics. And they probably did try to get rid of you.

Coughing phlegm and other similar actions done behind you or around you is a tactic. There’s a pattern that it is only done when behind you are in close proximity to you. It also started and ended. It’s a kind of projection towards you of something unwanted (rejection) and gross or revolting. You should address this kind of

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issue with them directly or with HR to let them know that it’s not just annoying and distracting but also rude, disrespectful and improper social etiquette.

They intentionally taught you one word “no good” and didn’t want you to use any others like “hello” and then used this word in their psychological manipulations. They used it to attack your self esteem and induce paranoia. Rejection or social rejection can also affect your self-esteem. (Disapproval)

The lab director and this group seem to have an understanding or alliance for their own benefit and not that of this lab.

Belittling other people is also a tactic.

Personal attacks or an attack to your ethnic or nationality is another.

Claiming that your position is temporary instead of the fact that it is a permanent position is a kind of threat.

The other tactics are pretty serious. They didn’t try to use any personal information in their tactics but they did try to get personal information from you. Remember that phrase “get me some dirt on that guy”. I believe they tried to obtain this kind of information from you. Some people will also act as friends for several months to get this kind of personal or confidential information. An example of this may be the lab director confiding personal information to you for you to do the same. These people are not your friends. The lab director also used a degrading theme, homosexuality, and it had a desired effect on you. I’m sure they know you are not homosexual but it is an attack to your dignity. Using false insinuations is also a tactic. The comment about killing homosexuals is probably an indirect threat and yes, what if you were homosexual. That would make it a more direct threat. Sometimes a lot of maneuvering is used to hide threats or the obviousness of a threat. Having illegal drugs on you or giving illegal drugs to a fellow employee in the workplace is usually grounds for dismissal and this could have then been used as a threat in the sense of leave or we will harm your career and personal life. The same is true for your lab director, asking employees for drugs can also be grounds for dismissal.

The affects are reduced when you realize the intentions are to cause a desired affect by attacking your dignity. Laughter is the best medicine.

Be respectful and polite at all times. Don’t confuse this with not being professional and exposing incompetence or procedure failures if you see any and you should also address the issue of position rotations. The lab director should or is well aware of the fact that http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/bullying_case_example.htm (7 of 12) [1/24/2009 3:02:28 PM] Bullying Case Example

your position has not been rotated as it’s supposed to have been for a very long time.

What was your stress level during this time period or the first 2 years? What is it now?

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Stress level during the first two years was very high (I constantly felt guilty of something). One student from a neighboring lab once asked me why I look guilty. I am much less stressed now, but because of that conditioning thing, I sometimes expect a stare or a cough / throat clearing event to happen when they are in the vicinity.

As for the homosexual incident, it was the fellow lab technologist who said 'homosexuals should be killed'. I then went to see the lab director about this, hoping he would do something about this, but he just simply replied something like 'we are all adults here and people can say what they want and there is nothing I can do about it so just get used to it. This wasn't the response I was hoping to hear.

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When the fellow technologist said homosexuals should be killed. How did you feel? Did you feel threatened or as if he had just threatened you?

It’s like this, If a group makes subtle hints or insinuations about you being of a certain ethnic for example (even though they probably know you are not), and then one of them says something like all the people of this ethnic should be killed, it’s an indirect threat to you because of the maneuverings or less visible or obvious but still a direct threat to you.

Another thing is that degrading themes are often used to prevent people from coming forward as mentioned on the website. This may or may not have been his intention by using a degrading theme to threaten you but it is often the way it is used. For example the person may have some reservations about claiming that he felt personally threatened by a threat that is made towards homosexuals.

As for your lab director, you addressed the issue. His response is a typical one but given the fact that he is also a participant, it is also probably a planed or calculated one.

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Did you feel depressed during this time period?

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At the time I was recently divorced and single. And yes I did feel it was a threat as in their minds I may have been gay (i.e. divorced guy no girlfriend). I also felt that it may have been a tactic to eliminate gay people from working in the institute (i.e. only heterosexual’s work here). This was an educated man saying this, not some ignorant relative.

Working here didn't feel good. Among other things, there was constant bombardment of noises, the staring, and the 'no good' being projected... I was able to withstand this treatment, in my opinion, due to my perseverance and putting up with the shit around you just to make a living. At first I thought my bad experience here was some kind of initiation rites (like university kids trying to get into a frat but are being mistreated at the initiation party), but it dragged on too long. At other times I felt this mistreatment was a control mechanism of theirs and in my head I kept telling myself they can try all they want but I won't be theirs. At times I wasn't sure if they were trying to get rid of me or purposely mistreating me to lower my self-esteem (as a consequence self-worth and self-esteem take a toll), resulting in me feeling of 'I'm lucky enough to have this job'. (Similar to Stockholm syndrome where the victim falls in love with his captor). But I survived and compared to people working in small time factories for example, I still believe I am still better off.

I wouldn't say I was depressed as I would jog a lot and go to the gym to 'release' the toxins of work.

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I don’t think I got a reply about this question.

Did the phlegm thing start from day one? You noticed it all of sudden. Why? They were doing it in different places and all of sudden it was always or concentrated behind you or in your proximity? Did they associate it to something? For example did one of them say something like “no good” and then do the phlegm thing?

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The phlegm thing started from day one. At first I thought it was just their usual self (I’m sure they do this at home too) but they started doing it directly behind my head, beside me or as they would pass by or when they were in my vicinity. To add a funny story to this, there were times when they needed a favor from me (let’s say to help them fix an ill functioning machine) and I knew http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/bullying_case_example.htm (9 of 12) [1/24/2009 3:02:28 PM] Bullying Case Example

they needed a favor as they would stop the throat clearing and phlegm sounds for a while, ask me for the favor and soon after start with the sounds again. It was a game to them. This and the fact that they slowed down in frequency when I started doing it to them, made me realize that this was a tactic. I don't believe they associated it to any word however (I guess they weren't that smart after all). Actually, the only association was when they needed a favor, they were nice to me, didn't make any noises and then after the favor would make noises again (this really drove me mad).

The more questions you ask the more that comes to mind, I guess I repressed some of it.

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So that would indicate that they know or are aware that it is affecting you in some way. They used what maybe a common behavior to them and modified it. One of the ways they used it was to frustrate you.

Associating different common actions, words, or noises to a threat or negativity is also a tactic. It’s also used to induce paranoia and leave the victim wondering who else is participating or if a common action from an individual was just a common action or intent on psychological harassment. This also places innocent people in other environments or other locations at risk. An unsuspecting person could provoke a victim of these tactics by using a common word, action, or noise. (see also Constant State of Interrogation on the Psychological Manipulation page)

What you did is ok by imitating them but keep in mind that you should never do like them or try to use these kinds of tactics back on them or engage them in this kind of a war. It’s not part of your beliefs or values and there are many reasons why you shouldn’t. Being true to your beliefs and values is also a self-esteem or self confidence factor. It also involves negativity instead of positivity. Create your journal. (see the What To Do page)

It may not be obvious to you but by them stopping it doesn’t mean you had a kind of victory, it may be the case that you did. I don’t want to take anything away from what you did because I think at least you fought back in some way. The reason is because when you engage them using these kinds of tactics they want to manipulate you into acting or behaving the same way they are and fight the same way they are or using the same tactics. This will go contrary to your personal beliefs or values and can affect your self- esteem. They may even try to reverse it claiming that you are the one using these tactics and they never were, something wrong with you, or you are sabotaging the work or productivity of others. If you do mimic them or use the same tactics you can’t really deny

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that you did. You’ll claim that you did but they started and they will say no, it’s all in your head and you started doing this to them and effected productivity. This could be grounds for dismissal.

In some cases they may even ask for you to consult a qualified medical professional, a psychiatrist, which would probably further discredit you by claiming that you are suffering from a psychological disorder or paranoid delusions and that this was all in your head. Your continued stay in this employment would then probably be attached to a condition of you undergoing therapy which would involve you taking medication and acknowledging the fact that this was all in your head or caused by a psychological disorder.

Use the Journal. Document what they do and expose them. Do not do the same as they do. I know you wouldn’t but I wanted you to understand some of the reasons why.

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Another justification came to mind as to why they would make those noises: to make me a tougher guy. I know this one sounds weird, but maybe in their minds I was a bit weak and so by constantly making those noises it would get me used to this and in effect a stronger person. But then again as I said in the previous email, they wouldn't make them when they needed a favor, so maybe that theory can be blown out the window.

Perhaps I expected a perfect world with perfect people, perhaps I always saw the good in people and not the bad, gave them the benefit of the doubt. Like I said they were nice to me at times and I found this very confusing.

Could it be that they were doing this to make me a stronger person, were they trying to help? Were they trying to control me and make me stay there (as I do value myself as a valuable asset)? Or am I deluding myself, maybe they do want me out? These questions will not have definitive answers, only time will tell.

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Like I mentioned before don’t be fooled by their nice guy to bizarre behavior routine. It’s meant to confuse you.

It’s all right to think of any possibilities as to why they would do this but don’t be fooled. As a person who has benevolent intentions and good values you may believe or examine the possibilities that their intentions may somehow have a good intention, benevolent, or beneficial to you. You will also normally reject the idea that their intentions are to harm you, why would anyone want to harm you or the fact that anyone would do this to another person or someone http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/bullying_case_example.htm (11 of 12) [1/24/2009 3:02:28 PM] Bullying Case Example

else. This is a normal phenomenon for victims of these tactics. This phenomenon is exploited or used, but again, don’t be fooled.

Trust me; there was nothing beneficial, benevolent, positive, or good in their intentions. There is a positive result because of the way you conducted yourself, what you learned, and you are probably a wiser and stronger person because of it. It’s also a phenomenon that they may also try to take credit for or try to lead you to believe was their intention. You should note that when you take action or fight back it can build self-confidence and self- esteem and this can also be an attempt to reduce that phenomenon.

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How does Psychological Harassment or Bullying and Mobbing affect workplace performance?

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different effects on the person's health (psychological and physical) and performance can be reduced due to their absences from work and also by their reduced capabilities when actually present for work. It can also be costly for many other medical reasons.

Psychological Harassment can also reduce collaboration and communication between colleges or teams and reduce their performance. Team members may actually try to sabotage each other.

A stressed person's cognitive abilities are reduced and they may not be as efficient at solving problems or issues.

An employee that is properly motivated and not highly stress by the use of threats or other factors out performs, short term and long term, an employee that is not properly motivated. An employee still has to reach or surpass performance objectives that are realistic.

Psychological Harassment can effect employee retention and increase training and recruitment costs.

A healthy work environment out performs one that isn't. There are many articles that claim that a happy employee out performs others.

An organizations reputation can be damaged for not being known as having a healthy environment and by different possible liabilities.

Are you providing information that people will use to target other people or victims?

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Psychological Harassment can be unintentional or intentional.

When it’s unintentional the people involved need to understand how and why they are harming themselves in order to take preventive measures.

When it’s intentional the people using these tactics and Psychological Manipulations already have the knowledge and it’s the victim that usually does not have the information or support for help. The victim usually does not understand or is unable to explain how they are being stressed, manipulated, and harmed.

In order for workplace policies and laws to be created information is needed. If there is no information, documentation, and facts then it remains invisible. No measures are taken and there is no prevention.

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Bullying Wiki Home Ivan Pavlov The section bellow was taken from Wikipedia, the free Psychological encyclopedia on (28-01-2008) and will be updated regularly to Manipulation add any changes, modifications, or updates. Degrading Themes Positivity Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others Technology through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more Advanced subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullying can be Technologies determined in many different ways Although the UK currently has [1] Words no legal definition of bullying, some US states have laws [2] Sleep Deprivation against it. Suicide Factors All Videos In colloquial speech, bullying often describes a form of Psychology Videos harassment perpetrated by an abuser who possesses more The Brain Video physical and/or social power and dominance than the victim. The Bullying Videos victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a target. The harassment can be verbal, physical and/or emotional. Bullying Bullying What To Do Many programs have been started to prevent bullying at schools Bullying Case Example with promotional speakers. Bullying FAQ Bullying Wiki Norwegian researcher Dan Olweus defines bullying as when a Bullying vs. Mobbing person is "exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions Bullying Reporting on the part of one or more other persons." He defines negative System action as "when a person intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort Bullying Forum upon another person, through physical contact, through words or [3] Bullying Survey in other ways." Mobbing Conclusion Bullying can occur in any setting where human beings interact About Us with each other. This includes school, the workplace, home and Feedback neighborhoods. Bullying can exist between social groups, social Contact Us classes and even between countries (see Jingoism). Laws Links Bullying behavior Portal (News) Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to Depression and intentionally hurt another person. Bullying is characterized by an Suicide Prevention individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person (Besag, 1989). Behaviors may include name calling, Stress Effects and verbal or written abuse, exclusion from activities, exclusion from Stress Management social situations, physical abuse, or coercion (Carey, 2003; Whitted & Dupper, 2005). Bullies may behave this way to be Macromineral perceived as popular or tough or to get attention. They may bully Deficiencies and Acid- out of jealousy or be acting out because they themselves are bullied (Crothers & Levinson, 2004).

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Base Disorders USA National Center for Education Statistics suggests that Coercive Mind Control bullying can be broken into two categories: Direct bullying, and Tactics [4] indirect bullying which is also known as social aggression. Psychological Harassment at Work Ross states that direct bullying involves a great deal of physical aggression such as shoving and poking, throwing things, Tools & Docs slapping, choking, punching and kicking, beating, stabbing, [5] Downloads pulling hair, scratching, biting and scraping.

Terms of use He also suggests that social aggression or indirect bullying is characterized by threatening the victim into social isolation. This isolation is achieved through a wide variety of techniques, including spreading gossip, refusing to socialize with the victim, bullying other people who wish to socialize with the victim, and criticizing the victim's manner of dress and other socially- significant markers (including the victim's race, religion, disability, etc). Ross (1998)[5] outlines other forms of indirect bullying which are more subtle and more likely to be verbal, such as name calling, the silent treatment, arguing others into submission, manipulation, gossip/ false gossip, lies, rumors/ false rumors, staring, giggling, laughing at the victim, saying certain words that trigger a reaction from a past event, and mocking. Children's charity Act Against Bullying was set up in 2003 to help children who were victims of this type of bullying by researching and publishing coping skills.

Effects

The effects of bullying can be serious and even fatal. Mona O’Moore Ph. D of the Anti-Bullying Centre, Trinity College Dublin, said, "There is a growing body of research which indicates that individuals, whether child or adult who are persistently subjected to abusive behavior are at risk of stress related illness which can [6] sometimes lead to suicide".

Victims of bullying can suffer from long term emotional and behavioral problems. Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, lead to low self-esteem and increased susceptibility to [7] illness.

The National Conference of State Legislatures said:

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school shootings and that efforts should be made to [8] eliminate bullying behavior."

Characteristics of bullies

Research indicates that adults who bully have personalities that are authoritarian, combined with a strong need to control or dominate.[9] It has also been suggested that a deficit in social skills and a prejudicial view of subordinates can be particular risk [10] factors.

Further studies have shown that while envy and resentment may be motives for bullying,[11] there is little evidence to suggest that bullies suffer from any deficit in self esteem (as this would make [12] it difficult to bully).

Researchers have identified other risk factors such as quickness to anger and use of force, addiction to aggressive behaviors, mistaking others' actions as hostile, concern with preserving self [13] image, and engaging in obsessive or rigid actions.

Bullying may also be "tradition" in settings where an age group or higher rank feels superior than lowerclassmen.

It is often suggested that bullying behavior has its origin in childhood:

"If aggressive behaviour is not challenged in childhood, there is a danger that it may become habitual. Indeed, there is research evidence, to indicate that bullying during childhood puts children at risk of criminal behaviour and [6] domestic violence in adulthood."

Bullying does not necessarily involve criminality or physical violence. For example, bullying often operates through psychological abuse or verbal abuse.

Bullying can often be associated with street gangs, especially at school.

History of bullying

High-level forms of violence such as assault and murder usually receive most media attention, but lower-level forms of violence

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such as bullying, has only in recent years started to be addressed by researchers, educators, parents and legislators (Whitted & Dupper, 2005).

It is only in recent years that bullying has been recognised and recorded as a separate and distinct offence, but there have been well documented cases the were recorded in a different context. The Fifth Volume of the Newgate Calendar [14] contains at least one example where Eton Scholars George Alexander Wood and Alexander Wellesley Leith were charged, at Aylesbury Assizes, with killing and slaying the Hon. F. Ashley Cooper on February 28, 1825 in an incident that would now, surely be described as "lethal hazing"[15]. The Newgate calendar contains several other examples that, while not as distinct, could be considered indicative of situations of bullying.

Types of bullying

School bullying

Main article: School bullying

In schools, bullying usually occurs in areas with minimal or no adult supervision. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, though it more often occurs in PE, recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work and/or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consists of a group of students taking advantage of, or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next victim. Targets of bullying in school are often pupils who are considered strange or different by their peers to begin with, making the situation harder for them to deal with. Some children bully because they have been isolated, and they have a deep need for belonging, but they do not possess the social skills to [7] effectively keep friends (see social rejection).

Bullying can also be perpetrated by teachers and the school system itself: there is an inherent power differential in the system that can easily predispose to subtle or covert abuse, humiliation, or exclusion - even while maintaining overt [17] commitments to anti-bullying policies.[16]

School shootings receive an enormous amount of media attention. The children who perpetrate these shootings sometimes claim that they were victims of bullying and that they

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resorted to violence only after the school administration repeatedly failed to intervene.[8] In many of these cases, the victims of the shooters sued both the shooters' families and the [18] schools.

Some suggest these rare but horrific events have led schools to try harder to discourage bullying, with programs designed to teach students cooperation, as well as training peer moderators in intervention and dispute resolution techniques, as a form of [citation needed] peer support.

American victims and their families have legal recourse, such as suing a school or teacher for failure to adequately supervise, racial or gender discrimination, or other civil rights violations. Special education students who are victimized may sue a school or school board under the ADA or Section 504.

Workplace bullying

Main article: Workplace bullying

According to the Workplace Bullying and Trauma Institute workplace bullying is "repeated, health-harming mistreatment, verbal abuse, or conduct which is threatening, humiliating, intimidating, or sabotage that interferes with work or some combination of the three."[19]. Statistics show that bullying is 3 times as prevalent as illegal discrimination and at least 1,600 times as prevalent as workplace violence. Statistics also show that while only one employee in every 10,000 becomes a victim of workplace violence, one in six experiences bullying at work. Bullying is also far more common than sexual harassment and verbal abuse.

Unlike the more physical form of schoolyard bullying, workplace bullying often takes place within the established rules and policies of the organization and society. Such actions are not necessarily illegal and may not even be against the firm's regulations; however, the damage to the targeted employee and to workplace morale is obvious.

Particularly when perpetrated by a group, workplace bullying is sometimes known as mobbing.

Cyber-bullying

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According to Canadian educator Bill Belsey, it:

...involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, blogs, online games and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. —Cyberbullying: An Emerging Threat to the Always [20] On Generation

[21] Bullies will even create blogs to intimidate victims worldwide.

Political bullying

Main article: Jingoism

Jingoism occurs when one country imposes its will on another. This is normally done with military force or threats. With threats, it is common to ensure that aid and grants will not be given to the smaller country or that the smaller country will not be allowed to join a trading organization. Often political corruptions, coup d'états, and kleptocracies are the solution and response to [citation needed] the countries being bullied.

Military bullying

In 2000, the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) defined bullying as: “...the use of physical strength or the abuse of authority to intimidate or victimize others, or to give unlawful punishments.”[22] A review of a number of deaths by suicide at Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut by Nicholas Blake QC indicated that whilst a culture of bullying existed during the mid to late 1990s many of the issues were being addressed as a result of the [23] Defence Training Review.

Some argue that this behaviour should be allowed because of a general academic consensus that "soldiering" is different from other occupations. Soldiers expected to risk their lives should, according to them, develop strength of body and spirit to accept [24] bullying.

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In some countries, ritual hazing among recruits has been tolerated and even lauded as a rite of passage that builds character and toughness; while in others, systematic bullying of lower-ranking, young or physically slight recruits may in fact be encouraged by military policy, either tacitly or overtly (see dedovschina). Also, the Russian army usually have older/more experienced candidates abusing - kicking or punching - less experienced soldiers.[25].

Hazing

Main articles: Hazing and Ragging

Hazing is an often ritualistic test, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform meaningless tasks; sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. The term can refer to either physical (sometimes violent) or mental (possibly degrading) practices. It is a subjective matter where to draw to line between 'normal' hazing (somewhat abusive) and a mere rite of passage (essentially bonding; proponents may argue they can coincide), and there is a gray area where exactly the other side passes over into sheer degrading, even harmful abuse that should not even be tolerated if accepted voluntarily (serious but avoidable accidents do still happen; even deliberate abuse with similar grave medical consequences occurs, in some traditions even rather often). Furthermore, as it must be a ritual initiation, a different social context may mean a same treatment is technically hazing for some, not for others, e.g. a line-crossing ceremony when passing the equator at sea is hazing for the sailor while the extended (generally voluntary, more playful) application to passengers is not.

Hazing has been reported in a variety of social contexts, including:

● Sports teams ● Academic fraternities and sororities (see fraternities and sororities)These practices are not limited to American schools. Swedish students undergo a similar bonding period, known as nollningen, in which all members of the entering class participate. ● College and universities in general. ● Associated groups, like fan clubs, school bands ● Secret societies and even certain service clubs, or rather their local sections (such as some modern US Freemasons; not traditional masonic lodges)

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● Similarly various other competitive sports teams or clubs, even 'soft' and non-competitive ones (such as arts) ● The armed forces — e.g., in the U.S., hard hazing practices from World War I boot camps were introduced into colleges. In Poland army hazing is called Polish fala "wave" adopted pre-World War I from non-Polish armies. In the Russian army (formerly the Red Army) hazing is called "Dedovshchina". ● Police forces (often with a paramilitary tradition) ● Rescue services, such as lifeguards (also drilled for operations in military style) ● In workplaces ● Inmate hazing is also common at confinement facilities around the world, including frequent reports of beatings and sexual assaults by fellow inmates.

Hazing is considered a felony in several US states, and anti hazing legislation has been proposed in other states.

Strategies to cope with bullying

Helping victims at school

Many of the responsibilities of members of a school team are that they need to help the victims of bullying.[26] The following strategies may be considered:

1. Speak with the victim and ask them if they want to do anything about it, if they refuse take your own part and start investigating. 2. After investigating the situation, it may be that intervention is necessary with the bully or bullies. The situation needs to be addressed. Ideally, a resolution to the problem will be found. 3. Inform the parents of the victim and of the bully. Discuss possible solutions with them. Arrange a meeting with them if possible. 4. Follow up in communicating with the victim, the parents and the teachers about the situation. 5. Monitor the behavior of the bully and the safety of the victim on a school-wide basis. 6. If the problem continues speak with the parents of the bully again and consider the idea of expulsion of the bully if problems continue, bullies normally attack not only one child but more of one, and normally 3 to 4 children are the attackers, find out exactly who they are. 7. Finally you should decide for yourself the punishment, it depends on how they attacked the children, how many

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they have been attacking, since when has it been a problem, etc.

Strategies to reduce bullying within schools

Researchers (Olweus, 1993;[27] Craig & Peplar, 1999;[28] Ross, 1998;[5] Morrison, 2002;[29] Whitted & Dupper, 2005;[30] Aynsley-Green, 2006;[31]) provide several strategies which address ways to help reduce bullying, these include:

● Make sure an adult knows what is happening to their children. ● Make it clear that bullying is never acceptable ● Recognise that bullying can occur at all levels within the hierarchy of the school (ie, including adults) ● Hold a school conference day or forum devoted to bully/ victim problems ● Increase adult supervision in the yard, halls and washrooms more vigilantly ● Emphasize caring, respect and safety ● Emphasize consequences of hurting others ● Enforce consistent and immediate consequences for aggressive behaviours ● Improve communication among school administrators, teachers, parents and students ● Have a school problem box where kids can report problems, concerns and offer suggestions ● Teach cooperative learning activities ● Help bullies with anger control and the development of empathy ● Encourage positive peer relations ● Offer a variety of extracurricular activities which appeal to a range of interests ● Teach your child to defend himself, verbally and physically, if necessary. ● Keep in mind the range of possible causes: eg, medical, psychiatric, psychological, developmental, family problems, etc.

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Bullying and Mobbing Home Ivan Pavlov Bullying vs. Mobbing Psychological Manipulation Click here for more on psychological harassment Degrading Themes Positivity The following words Bullying, Mobbing, Victimization, Emotional Technology Abuse, Psychological Abuse, and Psychological Violence may have Advanced different definitions from each other but Psychological Technologies Harassment does include them all. Words Sleep Deprivation The following page was taken from Workplace Mobbing in Suicide Factors Academe All Videos Psychology Videos Kenneth Westhues, Department of Sociology, University of The Brain Video Waterloo, 2007 Bullying Videos Bullying Bullying vs. Mobbing: a Difference of Priorities and Bullying What To Do Outlook Bullying Case Example Bullying FAQ While some researchers of workplace conflict treat bullying and Bullying Wiki mobbing as synonyms, most acknowledge that the two words point to different kinds of aggression. Bullying suggests a Bullying vs. Mobbing physically belligerent, hostile, overbearing individual, usually a Bullying Reporting manager, who takes pleasure in lording it over one or more System subordinates. Mobbing connotes a number of ordinary workers at Bullying Forum whatever level who unfairly gang up on a manager, peer, or Bullying Survey subordinate, tormenting the person in usually nonviolent ways. Mobbing Conclusion Both forms of aggression are worth studying, since both do About Us serious harm to the person or people targeted, as well as to the Feedback overall climate of social relations and the quality and productivity of the workplace. Contact Us Laws The difference between bullying and mobbing runs deeper, Links however, than the kinds of aggression the words point to. The Portal (News) difference extends also to different priorities for workplace relations, even different outlooks on life. Depression and Suicide Prevention Here is a true story of workplace conflict (actually a composite,

Stress Effects and with identifying information omitted) that I tell in my classes. My students vary in which of the parties they sympathize with. As Stress Management you read the story here, ask yourself where your own sympathies lie. After the story, I will suggest what can be inferred from your Macromineral answer for which of the two problems, bullying or mobbing, Deficiencies and Acid- concerns you more.

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Base Disorders A Case of Workplace Conflict in Health Care Coercive Mind Control Tactics The story is set in the maternity ward of a community hospital. A woman at full term has gone Psychological into labor. She is in the delivery room. The baby's Harassment at Work birth is imminent. The woman's husband is with her, standing at the head of the bed holding her hand and Tools & Docs comforting her. At the foot of the bed is the Downloads obstetrician, coaching and encouraging, saying when to push and when to take deep breaths. To his left Terms of use and a little behind him is the nurse. She stands beside a tray of instruments. The delivery is proceeding normally.

As the baby begins to come out, the doctor is poised to receive it in his hands. Without looking back at the nurse, he asks her for something on the tray — a towel, clamp, whatever — and holds out his left hand to receive it. Nothing is placed in his hand.

He turns to his left. He sees that the nurse has left the room.

He himself grabs whatever he was asking for. The delivery is successful. The doctor places the newborn on its mother's breast. The parents are overwhelmed with joy.

The doctor excuses himself for a moment, steps out of the delivery room, quickly finds another nurse and asks her to give the newborn standard postnatal care. He asks this nurse what happened to the one who was assisting him. She answers that the first nurse's shift ended and she went home.

The doctor says nothing to the second nurse, nor to the new parents, but he is outraged that the first nurse walked out in the middle of the delivery. He considers her action the height of irresponsibility, especially because she did not even tell him she was leaving. Had there been a last-minute problem, her abrupt departure could have endangered the baby's or the mother's life.

As the doctor is entering the hospital the next morning, he happens to pass this nurse in the corridor.

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"I have something to say to you," he tells her. She stops. Her back is against the corridor wall. He is standing in front of her, close enough that she feels uncomfortable. He wags his finger at her and says quietly, "If you ever walk out on a delivery again, I will have your ass fired." Then he walks on.

Later that day, this doctor and nurse are again working together on some procedure. Things go smoothly, There are no harsh words. The doctor makes a silly joke. The nurse smiles.

The doctor gives no further thought to the incident. It is in his memory, of course, as are his words to the nurse, but he does not expect she will repeat the misconduct for which he reprimanded her.

The nurse, however, has been traumatized by the doctor's misconduct. She is deeply upset, terrified at the thought of losing her job. Other staff were in the corridor when she was scolded. They probably saw the doctor shaking his finger at her, and guessed that she was being chewed out. She feels abused and publicly shamed.

It was not as if she left the delivery room on a whim. She had to leave promptly at the end of her shift, as always on that day of the week, to pick up her two pre-schoolers from daycare. She is a single mother living in a creepy townhouse, driving a rustbucket of a car, and dealing day after day with the stress of juggling childcare and career.

The nurse is so angry and depressed she cannot sleep that night, then loses her temper with her children the next morning, as she gets them ready and hustles them out the door for the ride to the daycare centre.

The nurse shares her concerns with two co-workers, also nurses. They commiserate with her. They have stories of their own to tell about the doctor in question. He is known to be gruff with hospital staff and to have low tolerance for mistakes, as if the whole world should revolve around his patients. The co-workers urge the nurse to consult with the grievance officer of the staff union, and assure her http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/bullying_vs_mobbing.htm (4 of 10) [1/24/2009 3:02:38 PM] Bulling vs. Mobbing

they will testify as witnesses on her behalf if the dispute ends up in a formal hearing.

The grievance officer is also sympathetic to the nurse's complaint. In his view, it is one more example of the unfair treatment routinely inflicted on union members by doctors and administrators. The collective agreement clearly forbids requiring staff to work overtime on short notice. It also forbids abusive and threatening language. It spells out clear procedures through the chain of command if a physician wants to complain about a nurse. The procedures do not include angry, public confrontation in a hospital corridor.

In the course of explaining what happened to the grievance officer, the nurse breaks down in tears, saying over and over, "I can't go on like this." The grievance officer suggests she go immediately for medical help. Her physician prescribes a mild antidepressant and places her on stress leave for the rest of the week.

At a meeting on an unrelated matter with the hospital CEO a few days later, the grievance officer mentions that a grievance may soon be filed over abuse of a nurse by a physician. The grievance officer is careful not to identify the parties, but the CEO can guess who they are, since gossip about the incident in the corridor has already reached him. The CEO listens to the grievance officer impassively, but he thinks to himself that he will not likely go to bat for the accused in this case. This doctor is not a team player. He has challenged the CEO in staff meetings over alleged laxity in standards of patient care. He needs to be taught a lesson, taken down a notch.

The grievance policy requires that a formal grievance be filed not later that two weeks after the event being grieved. Just before the deadline, the physician picks up from his mailbox a letter marked "confidential" from the union president. It indicates that copies have been sent to the nurse-complainant, the grievance officer, the director of nursing, the CEO, and the chief of medical staff. The letter states the complaint against him, that he abused, intimidated and threatened a nurse by word and gesture in a public corridor, using obscene and

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derisive language, and causing her emotional distress serious enough to require medical treatment. The letter also states the complainant's desired remedy: a formal apology from the doctor, and an appropriate penalty for him to be determined by the CEO, in keeping with principles of progressive discipline.

An arbitration for resolving the grievance is scheduled at the soonest possible date, which turns out to be six weeks ahead. Meanwhile, pending resolution of the grievance, the CEO suspends the physician's hospital privileges in accordance with policy requiring proactive intervention to safeguard staff from potential threats to their health and safety.

What Your Sympathies Imply for Your Approach to Workplace Conflict

If, having read this story, you find yourself sympathizing mainly with the nurse, you are probably more interested in the problem of workplace bullying. What leapt out at you in the narrative, the key fact of the case, was the doctor's verbal attack on the nurse in the corridor and the distress it caused.

If your sympathies are mainly with the doctor, you are probably more interested in the problem of workplace mobbing. What struck you most about the story, the key fact of the case, was that the nurse walked out in the middle of a baby's birth, and then joined with others in an attack on the doctor who reprimanded her, involving at minimum a six-week disruption of his practice.

Here are seven pervasive themes in the research literature on workplace bullying: (1) The nub of the problem is a cruel, overbearing individual who makes life miserable for one or more subordinates or co-workers; (2) Bullies and victims may be of either sex, but the stereotypical bully is male (the doctor in this story) and the stereotypical victim is female (the nurse); (3) Bullying is usually an overstepping or abuse of authority (the higher-status doctor uses his power over the lower-status nurse to tyrannize her); (4) Bullying is an infringement of a worker's rights (the point about overtime), a denial of the human dignity guaranteed by legislation, human rights codes, and collective agreements; (5) In any organization, the chain of command must be respected, and complaints made through proper channels (as

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opposed to taking matters in one's own hands, as the doctor did in the story); (6) The bully's attacks may involve formal punishment but usually consist mainly of hurtful, abusive verbal attacks that damage the target's self-esteem and emotional equilibrium, leading to a breakdown of health; (7) What defines the bullying is above all the target's experience, his or her perception of deep, demeaning hostility from the bully.

Here are seven corresponding themes in the research literature on workplace mobbing: (1) The nub of the problem is the ganging up of workers to demonize, humiliate, and scapegoat a target who has done little if anything wrong; (2) Mobbers and targets may be of either sex, but women are often over-represented among mobbers, whether the target is male or female; (3) The target of mobbing usually excels in his or her work, sets high standards for both self and others (like the doctor in this story): (4) Mobbing diminishes the quality of work (in this example, a doctor trying to ensure safe childbirth ends up being punished); (5) Most problems that arise in a workplace can be solved by workers themselves, without managerial intervention (in this story, the doctor warned the nurse privately, instead of reporting her to her supervisor); (6) The mob's attack has an informal aspect (like gossip and shunning), but consists mainly of official sanctions (like suspension of the doctor's hospital privileges): (7) The mobbing is defined not by anybody's personal feelings but by the facts of what happened (nurse walks out on delivery, doctor scolds her for it, and so on).

For Further Insight into Your Reaction to the Story

This story helps clarify the reader's outlook and priorities on work not only because it is based on actual events but also because, like most workplace conflicts, it is not clear-cut. Most readers can see both the doctor's and the nurse's sides. Sure, the nurse should not have walked out on the delivery, but neither should the doctor have accosted her in the corridor.

To become further aware of your own thinking, ask yourself how your sympathies might shift if the story were slightly different. Suppose: (1) That the nurse had asked her supervisor in advance not to be assigned to this delivery, on account of having to leave immediately at the end of her shift; or

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(2) That the nurse had arranged with another nurse to replace her in the delivery room a little before the end of her shift, but the other nurse forgot; or (3) That the nurse had said before she left, "My shift is over and I have to leave, so I'm going out to find somebody to replace me here"; or (4) That when the doctor confronted the nurse in the corridor, he yelled at her so that others could hear, "You are a worthless bitch who has no business working in this hospital; I intend to have your ass thrown out of here"; or (5) That the doctor had a long record of storming angrily at others, including his own patients, possibly to cover up his own mistakes.

Under any or all of these five conditions, the doctor's berating of the nurse would seem less justified, and most observers would be more concerned about his bullying.

Contrariwise, ask yourself how the following other possible differences in the story might alter how you would characterize the conflict. Suppose: (1) That other nurses and doctors had complained that this nurse and her friends were uncaring and lackadaisical, and that this was the third formal complaint she had made in the past year that somebody was bullying her; or (2) That the doctor was a woman and the nurse was a young single man who walked out on the delivery to meet friends in a bar; or (3) That the board of trustees was on the brink of firing the CEO on grounds that he failed to maintain proper standards of patient care; or (4) That when the doctor confronted the nurse in the corridor, he said, "If you ever walk out on a delivery again, I will feel obliged to file a complaint against you with the Director of Nursing"; or (5) That there had been last-minute complications in the delivery, and that on account of the nurse's absence, the baby almost died.

Under any or all of these five conditions, the collective action against the doctor would seem less justified, and most observers would be more concerned about his (or her) being mobbed.

Solutions

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arbitration of the grievance and interim suspension of the doctor's hospital privileges was clearly premature. A skilled CEO or director of nursing might have mediated between doctor and nurse, smoothed things over, validated the concerns of both parties, and renewed both parties' commitment to patients' health and well-being.

But we do not live in an ideal world. Humans sometimes behave badly, with resultant upheavals in workplaces of all kinds, hospitals not least. Researchers of workplace conflict try to produce knowledge that fits the facts and points toward better ways of doing things. Certain cases of conflict can only be described as bullying. Others are clearly mobbing. Very many can be described with either word, depending on the researcher's or observer's outlook and priorities.

As is plain from this website, my interest is mainly workplace mobbing. In the story told above, I see three regrettable events. First, a nurse walks out on her job at a critical moment. Second, a doctor accosts her in the corridor on that account. Third, the nurse, her friends, the union, and the CEO mount a concerted attack on the doctor's position and name: they mob him. I count this the most regrettable, amazing, and horrifying event of the three, partially because of the harm done to him, but mainly because of the damage to what should be the hospital's top priority. I would not want any woman to give birth or any baby to be born in a hospital that puts staff feelings ahead of patients' health.

In the view of some commentators, overconcern with workplace bullying (mobbing, too, in so far as it involves hurt feelings) has relegated to the sidelines what should be front and centre in any workplace: getting the work done well. In 2006, a large award by a British court to a victim of harassment by co-workers sparked intense debate over who, in fact, got taken advantage of by whom. In his 2007 essay on "The Hypersensitive Workplace." David Butcher argues that there is an important line, however elusive, between rudeness and harassment, support and handholding. In a trenchant entry on his Scientific Misconduct Blog, Aubrey Blumsohn laments a situation where "civility, decorum and status" displace genuine ethics.

Research and public concern about both bullying and mobbing will doubtless continue, and so will a certain difference of "feel" between the two fields of inquiry. Scholars who prefer to talk about bullying will continue to be a little wary of those who prefer to talk about mobbing, and vice versa. This webpage has been intended to clarify the reasons for that wariness, and to help

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Mobbing Home Ivan Pavlov This page was taken from Workplace Mobbing in Academe Psychological Manipulation Click here for more on psychological harassment Degrading Themes Positivity In the early 1980s, a Swedish psychologist named Heinz Technology Leymann identified a grave threat to health and safety in what Advanced appear to be the healthiest, safest workplaces in the world. Technologies German was Leymann’s first language, Swedish his second, but Words he labeled the distinct menace he had found with an English Sleep Deprivation word: mobbing. Suicide Factors All Videos Over the next twenty years, news of Leymann’s discovery spread Psychology Videos across Europe and beyond. Untranslated, the English name he gave it entered the vocabulary of workplace relations throughout The Brain Video Scandinavia and in Germany, Italy, and other countries. All Bullying Videos across Europe, not only specialists in occupational health but Bullying managers, union leaders, and the public at large came to Bullying What To Do recognize workplace mobbing as a real, measurable kind of Bullying Case Example harm, a destroyer of health and life. Bullying FAQ Bullying Wiki Strangely, recognition of Leymann’s discovery has been slower in Bullying vs. Mobbing coming to the English-speaking world. Newsweek published a Bullying Reporting popular summary of research on workplace mobbing in 2000, but System only in its European edition. In Britain and America, attention has focussed less on mobbing than on the different but related Bullying Forum problem of bullying, and, occasionally, on one of its extremely Bullying Survey rare possible results: the outbursts of extreme violence, that Mobbing from time to time make headlines across the country. Conclusion About Us Workplace mobbing was almost never discussed in Canada until Feedback the coroner's inquest following the murder of four workers at OC Contact Us Transpo in Ottawa in 1999. In that case, a former employee, Laws Pierre Lebrun, had ended the shooting spree by also taking his Links own life. It turned out that Lebrun had been ridiculed relentlessly by co-workers for his stutter, and then, after he had slapped one Portal (News) of them in retaliation, been forced to apologize to his tormentors.

Had Lebrun been mobbed at work? Was this the phenomenon Depression and Leymann had in mind? Media reports and the inquest itself Suicide Prevention tentatively said it was.

Stress Effects and In 2000 and 2001, The National Post publicized my research on Stress Management mobbing in the academic workplace, the process by which even

Macromineral tenured professors are ganged up on, humiliated, and run out of their jobs. While trying to make sense of some bizarre and Deficiencies and Acid- hugely destructive university conflicts in 1994, I had stumbled

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Base Disorders upon Leymann’s work and found it powerfully illuminating of the data in my files. Coercive Mind Control Tactics In the meanwhile, the concept of workplace mobbing caught the attention of the Ontario Nurses Association, the College Institute Psychological Educators Association of British Columbia, and a smattering of Harassment at Work other union and management groups, which then sponsored workshops on the topic, much as occurred in Germany a decade Tools & Docs earlier. Downloads The trauma of being mobbed Terms of use To describe mobbing as possibly the gravest threat most workers face is not to ignore threats posed by slippery floors, dangerous machines, toxic chemicals, and the other material hazards that health and safety committees properly make their top priority.

In practical terms, however, the worst kind of harm most Canadians have to fear at work is the kind that arises from faulty human relations, some kind of glitch in how people treat one another. Montreal researcher Hans Selye won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1964, for the best single-word description of today’s main workplace ills: stress. This short English word struck a chord in both the scientific community and the public, as mobbing would decades later, and quickly found its way into other languages. By now, research has shown in a thousand ways the stark, even lethal effects of too much of the wrong kind of stress on physical and mental health.

Mobbing can be understood as the stressor to beat all stressors. It is an impassioned, collective campaign by co-workers to exclude, punish, and humiliate a targeted worker. Initiated most often by a person in a position of power or influence, mobbing is a desperate urge to crush and eliminate the target. The urge travels through the workplace like a virus, infecting one person after another. The target comes to be viewed as absolutely abhorrent, with no redeeming qualities, outside the circle of acceptance and respectability, deserving only of contempt. As the campaign proceeds, a steadily larger range of hostile ploys and communications comes to be seen as legitimate.

Mobbing is hardly the only source of debilitating stress at work, and it was not the only one on which Leymann did research. He interviewed bank employees who had undergone the terror of armed robbery, and subway drivers who had watched helplessly as their trains ran over persons who fell or jumped onto the tracks. Leymann documented the depression, absenteeism, sleeplessness, and other symptoms of trauma resulting from

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such stressful experiences.

Bank robberies and subway suicides were no match, however, for being mobbed by co-workers in the personal devastation that ensued. Not infrequently, mobbing spelled the end of the target’s career, marriage, health, and livelihood. From a study of circumstances surrounding suicides in Sweden, Leymann estimated that about twelve percent of people who take their own lives have recently been mobbed at work.

How it happens

Mobbing is relatively rare, and many workplaces hum along for decades without a single case of it. But by Leymann’s and others' estimates, between two and five percent of adults are mobbed sometime during their working lives. The other 95 percent, involved in the process only as observers, bystanders, or perpetrators (though occasionally also as rescuers or guardians of the target), mostly deny, gloss over, and forget the mobbing cases in which they took part. That is one reason it has taken so long for the phenomenon to be identified and researched.

That children and teenagers sometimes join in collectively humiliating one of their number is well known--most people can cite examples from their own school days. The widely publicized deaths of two girls in British Columbia–Reena Virk, beaten and drowned in 1999, and Dawn Marie Wesley, driven to suicide in 2000–have heightened public awareness of the cruel reality of swarming or collective bullying among both girls and boys.

Leymann’s contribution was to document beyond any doubt the same reality among adults, even in the cool, rational, professional, bureaucratic, policy-governed setting of a workplace. The tactics differ. Workplace mobbing is normally carried out politely, without any violence, and with ample written documentation. Yet even without the blood, the bloodlust is essentially the same: contagion and mimicking of unfriendly, hostile acts toward the target; relentless undermining of the target’s self-confidence; group solidarity against one whom all agree does not belong; and the euphoria of collective attack.

An example from a factory

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The label this woman and her husband had placed on her problem fit the facts they presented to me. She was regularly paired for certain tasks with a male co-worker who day after day humiliated her with insults to her work and degrading sexual slurs. Years earlier, when she had threatened to report him to the boss, he had grabbed her arm in a threatening manner.

Yet as this shy, soft-spoken lady shared more facts with me, sexual harassment appeared to be a very partial characterization of her predicament. She had in fact complained to both union and management about the man's offensive behavior, but to no avail. She and her husband were at wit’s end. The leader of the union was a paragon of political correctness. A zero-tolerance policy on sexual harassment was posted where all could see. Yet her harasser carried on as before.

Explanation could be found only in the larger dynamics of the work group. This woman ranked at the bottom of the pecking order. She was apart from her workmates in three crucial ways. First, she had a partial disability, the result of an accident at work years before, that under terms of the collective agreement precluded her doing certain jobs. For want of physical dexterity, she was exempt from tasks at which everybody else took a turn. She was also paid at an hourly rate, while most others were on piecework.

Second, though most workers in the group were from immigrant groups, this woman was from a different one than everybody else. Ethnically, she was a minority of one.

Third, while most of her peers sprinkled their speech with obscenities, took crude banter in stride, and seemed to thrive on a relatively coarse workplace culture, this woman did not. She was devoted to her family and her faith.

These and other factors made her an outcast. Her problem was far worse than one man’s harassment and bullying. It was the humiliation of daily loathing by her peers. What drove her over the edge were comments from two female co-workers on a hot summer day when job assignments were being rotated. One called out so that all could hear, “I don’t want to work with the cripple.” Another, distributing sweatbands to combat the heat, passed this worker by saying, “You don’t work hard enough to get one.”

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crying then and could not stop. She was taken to the nurse, who sent her home. Her husband took her to the hospital emergency room. She was diagnosed with clinical depression and placed on sick leave. She returned to work months later, was again paired with the man who led the harassment and later suffered a severe heart attack. The formal grievances she had lodged were resolved with her early retirement about ten years after the mobbing began.

The case illustrates the escalation that is essential to workplace mobbing. Each higher level of authority, in both company and union, to which this woman and her husband appealed, was faced with overturning the will of a successively larger group of subordinates. Steadily more and higher-level employees over time voiced the common sentiment: this woman is impossible to work with, she has to go.

Mobbing was exacerbated in this case by its leader's special status in the group. Some female workers found him sexy. He had connections for getting cigarettes and alcohol tax-free, and in this way had forged semi-secret ties with other employees. Acting in the role of chief eliminator, he led the campaign to rob one partially disabled worker of her job, her dignity, and her health. The process took years, but it eventually achieved its aim.

Mobbing versus other exits

Why didn’t this factory worker quit? In the answer to this question lie clues to why mobbing is more common in some employment situations than others. Mobbing rarely happens to a worker who can easily relocate to a different employer.

Mobbing is also rare in the case of workers on at-will contracts, since they can be summarily fired. A manager faced with ten subordinates who get along and get work done reasonably well, all of whom despise a certain other subordinate and want to be rid of him or her, ordinarily heeds the collective will. If for some reason the manager does not, there is conflict but not mobbing, since opinion about the acceptability of the worker in question is divided.

Further, in situations where a worker can be terminated only for cause, mobbing seldom occurs if legitimate cause exists. On the basis of clear evidence of substandard performance or serious misconduct, workers are routinely terminated–firmly, but often with compassion and regret.

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The worker most vulnerable to being mobbed is an average or high achiever who is personally invested in a formally secure job, but who nonetheless somehow threatens or puts to shame co- workers and/or managers. Such a worker provides no legally defensible grounds for termination, yet usually fails to pick up subtle hints and leave voluntarily. An attractive solution, from the majority point of view, is to bring or wear this worker down, one way or another, however long it takes.

As the process drags on, both sides, collective and individual, dig in their heels. It is often as if the targeted worker has grabbed a hot wire and cannot let go, despite the pain and injury it inflicts. The worker’s investment of self and sense of having been deeply wronged prevent the one resolution that would satisfy the other side.

Ironically, it is in workplaces where workers’ rights are formally protected that the complex and devious incursions on human dignity that constitute mobbing most commonly occur. Union shops are one example, as in the case of the factory worker described above. University faculties are another, on account of the special protections of tenure and academic freedom professors have. It happens in police forces, too, since management rights in this setting are tempered by the oath officers swear to uphold the law. Mobbings appear to be much more frequent in the public service as a whole, as compared to private companies.

Mobbing also appears to be more common in the professional service sector–such as education and health care–where work is complex, goals ambiguous, best practices debatable, and market discipline far away. Scapegoating is an effective if temporary means of achieving group solidarity, when it cannot be achieved in a more constructive way. It is a turning inward, a diversion of energy away from serving nebulous external purposes toward the deliciously clear, specific goal of ruining a disliked co-worker's life.

What to do about it

As a clinician, Leymann made his priority the healing of post- traumatic stress in those most severely affected by mobbing. With the support of the Swedish health service, he opened a clinic for mobbing victims in 1994, and published detailed research on the first 64 patients treated there. That clinic no longer exists and Leymann himself died in 1999, but 200 patients are currently treated in a similar clinic that opened in Saarbruecken, Germany, this year.

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Competent, well-informed treatment of the many mobbing targets who suffer mental breakdown is obviously in order, especially since they have often in the past been misdiagnosed as having paranoid delusions.

Psychiatric injury, however, is but one possible harmful result of being mobbed. Some mobbing targets keep their sanity but succumb to cardiovascular disease–hypertension, heart attack, or stroke. Most suffer loss of income and reputation. Marital breakdown and isolation from friends and family are also common outcomes.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, although experts do not agree on the ingredients of the desired ounce. Believers in human perfectibility favor enacting laws and policies that forbid workplace mobbing under pain of punishment. Organizations as diverse as Volkswagen in Germany and the Department of Environmental Quality in the American state of Oregon already have anti-mobbing policies in place. It is too soon to say what effect, if any, such policies will have on the incidence of the phenomenon.

The impulse to gang up, to join with others against what is perceived to be a common threat, lies deep in human nature. It is not easily outlawed. A policy forbidding it may, in practice, become a weapon for convicting some mobbing target of a punishable offense and thereby aiding in his or her humiliation. The evidence is clear by now that policies against sexual harassment have often been used as tools for harassing innocent but disliked workmates. Anti-mobbing policies may turn out to be even more versatile tools for such mischief.

The tiny percentage of mobbing victims–like Pierre Lebrun–who lash back in violent attack would probably have lived out their lives peaceably and productively had they been spared the excruciating pain of relentless humiliation.

All can agree, at least, on the desirability of public awareness of the vital but sad discovery Heinz Leymann made two decades ago, and on the continuing need for careful, critical scholarship that builds on his. The better we understand ourselves, including our darker impulses, the more able we are to keep one another healthy and safe.

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Heinz Leymann's original website continues to be maintained.

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Base Disorders Get a therapeutic massage: Coercive Mind Control A therapeutic massage stimulates the skin and is linked to Tactics affection. It releases chemicals in your brain, endorphins, and can help with stress, depression, and strengthen your immune system. Psychological (massage therapy and touch therapy) Harassment at Work It relaxes muscles, increases blood circulation and lymph flow, and can alleviating pain in migraine sufferers. Tools & Docs Condition your mind positively: Downloads One of the symptoms of depression is that you probably have

feelings of hopelessness and despair. Your mind can also be Terms of use conditioned negatively to always see the negative side of things or expect the worse. The opposite is also true, you can condition your mind to think positively or expect positive outcomes. It’s not easy at first and does require effort but eventually it can change and become almost automatic where you will be thinking positively instead of negatively. You have a lot of imagination so play the positive imagination game. You may have heard these expressions: look on the bright side, put a positive spin on it or spin it positively. (see also Conditioning your mind negatively or positively)

Act Happy (condition your mind happy): Act the way you want to feel and soon you will feel the way you act. This is common in self confidence building therapies or courses where you are asked to act the part of or like a confident person. You soon develop that skill or behavior which results in the person having more confidence. There is increasing evidence that acting enraged, obsessed, malevolent, or depressed maybe bad for you. Actor Leonard DiCaprio developed obsessive-compulsive disorder while playing Howard Hughes in the block buster The Aviator. This often happens to actors who get "caught up" in the role they play or keep many of the same character traits of the role they played. Heath Ledger who played the Joker in the Batman movie died and was allegedly clinically depressed. If you act having an enraged or angry conversation with someone, you will usually find that your emotions do get engaged even though you are simply acting the part. When you are acting happy, you are thinking happy thoughts that go with the acting role you are playing, so it's like conditioning your mind to be happy. So try acting happy and you can also consider it "acting happy therapy".

Change your negative selftalk to a positive self talk: If your selftalk is negative and you are always criticizing or putting yourself down, you should change this self talk to a more positive one. Try seeing errors and mistakes as a learning experience for example. Something that you can use to learn from and improve on. Many people consider life its self as a learning experience.

Visual and Auditory Brain Stimulation (positivity):

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You can try listening to classical or new age music while watching your favorite scenic video or using the visualization function on your music player (windows media player, winamp, itunes). Many studies indicate that classical music stimulates the brain in many positive ways, adding the visualization function of your player, with many different patterns and colors, can also stimulate your brain in positive ways.

Listen to calming or uplifting rhythmical music: There are many positive effects from music and people also advocate that some types of music such as Mozart can also make you smarter by working different regions of the brain. You can also try singing one of your favorite positive and uplifting songs (similar to positive selftalk and affirmations).

Get a dose of sun light and bright colors: Light therapy is becoming more popular for seasonal depression. Light therapy can also strengthen your immune system. Getting a dose of bright colors from watching a colorful movie or cartoons can also have positive effects on the brain.

Positive Visualization: Many Professional athletes use positive visualization to practice a perfect performance or outcome in their minds. You can do the same or something similar. Visualize good performances, success, and positive outcomes instead of negative outcomes. Practice recalling positive images of your favorite scenic pictures, using your imagination to visualize a calm ocean and beach for example, positive memories, and positive events or actions such as helping friends or people and successful events such as graduations. How you see yourself, yourself image, is also important. Visualize yourself in a positive way, intelligent, caring, and brave for example, do not dwell on your flaws but improve them.

Use positive affirmations: Using positive affirmations can change your thinking and subconscious. (similar to positive self talk)

Take steps to build self-esteem (set goals and help others): Setting goals, taking action, accomplishments, success, and helping others, how you value yourself and self-worth, can be very rewarding and can help you build self-esteem. When you complete a task or a major task your brain releases endorphins the happy and feel good hormone. You feel happy and your self-esteem usually also goes up too. When you complete a major task, reward yourself to enhance these feelings and to further condition this habit of setting and accomplishing goals.

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articles also claim that it can prevent or help with depression. They are good for the brain, the heart, prevent cancer, and help you lose weight.

Get enough or the required sleep and exercise: When you are stressed and worried, anxiety, you can suffer from insomnia and insomnia is linked to depression. Sleep deprivation also increases the stress hormone, cortisol, in your body. A person who is sleep deprived brain can look like that of psychotic person's brain in an MRI scan. You can exercise to counteract the effects of stress (Stress Management). Exercise increases blood flow to your brain, counteracts the stress hormones, cortisol and adrenaline, and releases endorphins in your brain, the "feel good and happy hormones". The result is that you will be more calm, relaxed, and sleep better.

Take a hot bath with scented oils: Taking a hot bath and adding scented oils, Aromatherapy, before bed time also relaxes you and your body and should help you sleep better.

Stay active and preoccupied: Stay active by doing house cleaning for example. By staying preoccupied your brain has less time to dwell on dark or negative thoughts. You'll also feel organized and productive and get the positive effects of this feeling. Tidiness has also been know to reduce stress and improve psychological health.

Socialize and do not Isolate yourself: Socializing is therapeutic, works the brain, and makes you smarter. It can also preoccupy you and keep you from dwelling on negative thoughts. The positivity of those you socialize with can also rub off on you. Try to participate in activities and social events that contain comedy and laughter.

Sex makes you smarter and can also help with depression: Sex is linked to affection and pleasure and releases endorphins in the brain. Many studies indicate that it can help with depression and can also make you smarter.

Good nutrition is also very important: A deficiency in minerals and electrolytes, such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium can affect the brain. Too much calcium in your body can also cause a deficiency in your body of magnesium. The body uses electrolytes to help regulate nerve and muscle function and to maintain acid-base balance and fluid balance.

The Brain is Changed

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If you take a brain image of an ordinary person with no signs of any psychological disorders and submit them to psychological harassment for a long period of time the brain image will probably be different and have increased or decreased levels of activity in area's of the brain that are associated to psychological disorders or disease.

Also, as indicated on the stress effects page, one of the effects of long periods of stress is that it kills brain cells.

amenclinics.com : ''In a similar way, sleep deprivation also decreases brain activity and limits access to learning, memory, and concentration. A recent brain imaging study showed that people who consistently slept less than 7 hours had overall less brain activity. Sleep problems are very common in people who struggle with their thoughts and emotions. Getting enough sleep everyday is essential to brain function. Scientists have only recently discovered how stress negatively affects brain function. Stress hormones have been shown in animals to be directly toxic to memory centers. Brain cells can die with prolonged stress. Managing stress effectively is essential to good brain function.''

"Happy and hopeful thoughts had an overall calming effect on the brain, while negative thoughts inflamed brain areas often involved with depression and anxiety."

"You can train your thoughts to be positive and hopeful or you can just allow them to be negative and upset you. That's right, it's up to you! You can learn how to change your thoughts and optimize your brain."

"Stay away from substances known to be toxic or those that decrease brain activity."

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suicide.org - Suicide Prevention Information and Suicide Prevention Hotlines (many countries) suicidepreventionlifeline.org - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

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Although Dr. Heinz Leymann, a psychiatrist, pioneered the research on Mobbing in Sweden in the early eighties, psychiatry, the main recipients of the victims of psychological harassment (mobbing), burnouts and depression, have not continued his research. In fact,

if you contact psychiatric institutions or associations, they have no research, documentation, or statistics on the issue. They do, however, have a lot of research, documentation, and statistics on different medications. There is a more then 20 year gap in information, documentation, and research. Many people also claim that psychiatry has actually been hiding and covering up the use of this psychological manipulation technology and are used to discredit its victims.

Psychological Manipulation Tool Set

The psychological manipulation tool set is an invisible technology that when used can have some very serious psychological and physical effects. Documentation and research makes it visible.

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Defined by the Labour Code; Moral harassment is manifested by repeated gestures that have the goal or effect of degrading the working conditions and that are susceptible of violating a persons rights at work and his dignity, effect his physical or mental or compromises his professional career. The author being: an employer, a staff member, a colleague of the victim…

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Ordinance of the National Board of Occupational Safety and Health containing Provisions on measures against Victimization at Work, together with General Recommendations on the implementation of the Provisions.

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Section 1 These Provisions apply to all activities in which employees can be subjected to victimization. By victimization is meant recurrent reprehensible or distinctly negative actions which are directed against individual employees in an offensive manner and can result in those employees being placed outside the workplace community.

General provisions

Section 2 The employer should plan and organize work so as to prevent victimization as far as possible.

Section 3 The employer shall make clear that victimization cannot be accepted in the activities.

Routines

Section 4 AFS 1993:17

In the activities there shall be routines for the early detection of signs of, and the rectification of such unsatisfactory working conditions, problems of work organization or deficiencies of co-operation as can provide a basis for victimization.

Section 5 If signs of victimization become apparent, counter-measures shall without delay be taken and followed up. In doing so, a special investigation shall be made to ascertain whether the causes of shortcomings of co-operation are to be found in the way in which work is organized.

Section 6 Employees who are subjected to victimization shall quickly be given help or support. The employer shall have special routines for this.

Entry into force

These Provisions enter into force on 31st March 1994. ..

Guidance on individual Sections

Definitions

Guidance on Section 1 Victimization in the form of various kinds of reprehensible behaviour can be committed both by employees and by the employer personally or his

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representatives.

The phenomena commonly referred to, for example, as adult bullying, mental violence, social rejection and harassment - including sexual harassment - have come to be seen more and more as problems of working life in their own right and will be collectively referred to here as victimization.

These are difficult and sensitive problems. What is more, they can have serious and harmful effects on individual employees and on entire working groups if carelessly assessed and handled. Harmful effects on exposed persons may be revealed by both mental and physical pathological states - sometimes chronic - and also by social rejection from working life and the workplace community.

The following are some instances of victimization:

- Slandering or maligning an employee or his/her family.

- Deliberately withholding work-related information or supplying incorrect information of this kind.

AFS 1993:17

- Deliberately sabotaging or impeding the performance of work.

- Obviously insulting ostracism, boycott or disregard of the employee.

- Persecution in various forms, threats and the inspiration of fear, degradation, e.g. sexual harassment.

- Deliberate insults, hypercritical or negative response or attitudes (ridicule, unfriendliness etc.).

- Supervision of the employee without his/her knowledge and with harmful intent.

- Offensive "administrative penal sanctions" which are suddenly directed against an individual employee without any objective cause, explanations or efforts at jointly solving any underlying problems. The sanctions may, for example, take the form of groundless withdrawal of an office or duties, unexplained transfers or overtime requirements, manifest obstruction in the processing of applications for training, leave of absence and suchlike.

Offensive administrative sanctions are, by definition, deliberately carried out in such a way that they can be taken as a profound personal insult or as an abusive power and are liable to cause high, prolonged stress or other abnormal and hazardous mental strains on the individual.

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behaviour towards other people. The actions have a negative effect, in both the short and long term, on individuals and also on entire working groups.

For the sake of clarity, it should be added that occasional differences of opinion, conflicts and problems in working relations generally should be regarded as normal phenomenas - always provided, of course, that the mutual attitudes and actions connected with the problems are not intended to harm or deliberately offend any person. Victimization does not occur until personal conflicts lose their reciprocity and respect for people's right to personal integrity slips into unethical actions of the kind mentioned above and individual employees are dangerously affected as a result.

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Brainwashing

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Psychology

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off bacterial invaders. The hormone Cortisol weakens Macrophages.

Long periods of stress and the release of Cortisol can disrupt your blood sugar metabolism, lead to weight gain, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart attacks, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, decreased levels of testosterone, muscle and bone loss, decrease sexual function, women can develop new facial hair growth, skin disease, Cushing’s syndrome, Addison's disease, headaches, asthma, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, eye problems, anxiety, insomnia, memory problems, trigger emotional problems, irritability, burnouts, depression, premature aging, and cancer. The adrenal glands can shrink and reduce production.

The stress hormones have been shown to be directly toxic to memory centers and also kill brain cells. Chronic stress disrupts neuro path ways and also kills brain cells.

Oxidative Stress, referred to as rusting, is the production of reactive oxygen species which include free radicals and peroxides. Free radicals can cause high levels of cellular damage, DNA damage, and cell death. It causes premature aging. Oxidative stress is associated to diseases such as atherosclerosis, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s. Anti-oxidants reduce oxidative stress damage.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is when an individual recalls past events and memories, past trauma, that induce the stress response or the emotions felt at that time.

Immune System Suppression Caused by Stress (Psychoneuroimmunology) Stress decreases the number of helper T cells, suppressor T Cells, cytotoxic T cells, B cells, and the Natural Killer cells (NK). It also decreases T cell function, T cell proliferation response to phytohaemagglutinin [PHA] and concanavalin A [Con A]. Cortisol prevents proliferation of T-cells by rendering the interleukin-2 producer T-cells unresponsive to intereukin-1 and unable to produce the T-cell growth factor. Naturalistic stressors are also associated to increases in number of circulating neutrophils.

Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid-Base Disorders High levels of stress and sleep deprivation can cause macromineral deficiencies and acid-base disorders (PH imbalance) in the blood called acidosis and alkalosis. The effects of macromineral deficiencies and acid-base disorders can be very serious ranging from depression, delirium, hallucinations, joint pain, muscle aches and pain, and heart failure. Referred to as the "Real Silent Killer" by some. Macromineral Deficiencies and Acid-Base Disorders

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To help your body maintain a good or balanced PH, you need to take buffer supplements calcium & magnesium (citrate or chelate) and potassium. ex: Trophic.net (CalMag 1:1 and Potassium Chelazome) Other pH balance products: Buffer pH and Tracelabs Alcabase Taking calcium alone can deplete your magnesium levels.

Stress Management and Reducing Stress

Stress management involves understanding the psychology behind or that is causing the stress and finding strategies to deal with, reduce, or eliminate the stress. Stress can result from viewing yourself or your situations negatively or with insecurity. Stress reduction results from managing or viewing situations in a positive way, taking action, organizing, planning, and finding solutions. By doing this you will also feel a sense of control over the situation and your life.

When your mind starts negative or insecure thinking, go to positive thinking such as planning or your plan to deal with the issue, finding and brainstorming possible solutions, and focus on any possible positive results. This may become reflexive after a period of time.

Laughter and Humor are very powerful. It has great health benefits such as reducing the stress hormones and strengthen the immune system. It also releases endorphins, the feel good and happy hormone, in the brain. Your point of view of a situation can change the way it affects you. For example if you are in a threatening situation but view it in a humorous way or as a challenge instead of a threat it can greatly reduce the stress it causes. The emotions of other people and their attitude of being negative or positive can affect you. For example a person that is pessimistic or always views things and interprets things negatively or a person that is always joyful and laughing can rob off on you and can change you. Remember the expression "Laughter is contagious". (Negative to Positive)

Stay away from Anger and emotions that promote the stress hormone.

Crying because of grief is an emotional release and helps us deal with loss or the emotions we have and relaxes the person and the body.

Stress Management strategies

Cognitive Therapy, Laughter and Humor, Conflict Resolution, Meditation, Positive Affirmations, Guided Imagery, Visualizations,

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Hypnosis, Autogenic, Social Interaction and Support, Organizational and Time management, and Anger Management.

Exercise, Deep Breathing, Yoga, Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Relaxation Techniques, Sex, Biofeedback, Aromatherapy, Relaxing Music, and Massage Therapy

Nutrition and Natural Supplements

Ways of reducing stress, it's effects, and help maintain good mental health.

Always stay calm and speak to others in a positive and respectful manner. Learn about time management, get organized, create a to-do list, and tackle your tasks or issues one at a time. Fill your mind with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope. Keep a positive attitude. Physical exercise is the best way to relieve stress. Aerobic exercise and physical activity help reduce the effects of stress on the body. See a comedy show or movie. Take vitamins such as a daily multivitamin. Periods of stress can cause the body to deplete nutrients more quickly. Take supplements of calcium&magnesium and potassium. Periods of stress can cause the body to deplete nutrients more quickly. Vitamin C has been shown in research to reduce the effects of stress. Foods rich in omega 3 fatty acids are essential to brain function. Frequent breaks with stretching and massages help reduce tension. Stop or limit caffeine and alcohol consumption. Eat regularly scheduled, healthy, and well balanced meals. Drink plenty of water and stay hydrated. Rest as much as you can. Try to get at least eight hours of sleep and go to bed at scheduled hours. Laughter is a good way of reducing stress. Live in "day-tight compartments." Clear your desk and keep it organized. Speak to your friends and family. Speak to a qualified professional. Consult a human resource representative.

Physical exercise helps with stress, anxiety, and depression: Physical exercise releases chemicals that can help counter the effects of stress and depression. Short (20 minutes) time efficient and high intensity interval training on a tread mill can help and can also be repeated daily. To be able to repeat this training daily the key is not to over exert yourself in one training session. Keep it short and intense so that you are able to recover quickly. This counters the effects of the stress hormone, releasing chemicals, burning the adrenaline and cortisol, pushing blood to the brain, and

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returning the body to a relaxed state. You should always warm-up the body and heart before intense exercise.

Laughter is great medicine: Laughter releases chemicals, endorphins, in your brain that can help with stress and depression and many people advocate laughter therapy. It also lowers the stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. The simple act of smiling releases good chemicals.

Get a therapeutic massage: A therapeutic massage stimulates the skin and releases chemicals in your brain, linked to affection, that can help with stress and depression. (massage therapy and touch therapy)

Take Omega 3: Omega 3's have beneficial effects on the brain and many research articles also claim that it can prevent or help with depression. They are good for the brain, the heart, prevent cancer, and help you lose weight.

Nutrition: Food and supplements that are rich in anti-oxidants can help reduce oxidative stress and the effects of stress on the brain and body.

Take a hot bath with scented oils. Taking a hot bath and adding scented oils (Aromatherapy) before bed time also relaxes you and your body and should help you sleep better.

see Depression and Suicide Prevention for more.

amenclinics.com "Happy and hopeful thoughts had an overall calming effect on the brain, while negative thoughts inflamed brain areas often involved with depression and anxiety."

"Caffeine constricts blood vessels and has been shown to decrease brain activity.... Stay away from substances known to be toxic or those that decrease brain activity."

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very common in people who struggle with their thoughts and emotions. Getting enough sleep everyday is essential to brain function."

"Caffeine constricts blood vessels and has been shown to decrease brain activity.... Stay away from substances known to be toxic or those that decrease brain activity."

ABC Stress Video 10092008

Coping With Stress - 20 tips, managing, + Stress Relievers:25 ways to reduce stress Stress - Effects and Relieving Workouts

positive attitude can keep a person healthy - Study shows brain activity influences immune function Cool colors tend to have a calming effect - The color of calm

The Physical Effects of Long-Term Stress

eurekalert.org - Researchers-again-pinpoint why stress kills

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Coercive Mind Control Tactics Home Ivan Pavlov Coercive Mind Control Tactics Psychological Manipulation Terminology note: Degrading Themes Today Mind control or brainwashing in academia is commonly Positivity referred to as coercive persuasion, coercive psychological systems or coercive influence. The short description below comes Technology from Dr. Margaret Singer professor emeritus at the University Advanced of California at Berkeley the acknowledged leading authority in Technologies the world on mind control and cults. Words Sleep Deprivation a short overview Suicide Factors All Videos Coercion is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as:

Psychology Videos 1. To force to act or think in a certain manner The Brain Video 2. To dominate, restrain, or control by force Bullying Videos 3. To bring about by force. Bullying Bullying What To Do Coercive psychological systems are behavioral change programs which use psychological force in a coercive way to cause the Bullying Case Example learning and adoption of an ideology or designated set of beliefs, Bullying FAQ ideas, attitudes, or behaviors. The essential strategy used by the Bullying Wiki operators of these programs is to systematically select, sequence Bullying vs. Mobbing and coordinate many different types of coercive influence, Bullying Reporting anxiety and stress-producing tactics over continuous periods of System time. In such a program the subject is forced to adapt in a series Bullying Forum of tiny "invisible" steps. Each tiny step is designed to be Bullying Survey sufficiently small so the subjects will not notice the changes in themselves or identify the coercive nature of the processes being Mobbing used. The subjects of these tactics do not become aware of the Conclusion hidden organizational purpose of the coercive psychological About Us program until much later, if ever. These tactics are usually Feedback applied in a group setting by well intentioned but deceived Contact Us "friends and allies" of the victim. This keeps the victim from Laws putting up the ego defenses we normally maintain in known Links adversarial situations. The coercive psychological influence of Portal (News) these programs aim to overcome the individual's critical thinking abilities and free will - apart from any appeal to informed Depression and judgment. Victims gradually lose their ability to make independent decisions and exercise informed consent. Their Suicide Prevention critical thinking, defenses, cognitive processes, values, ideas,

Stress Effects and attitudes, conduct and ability to reason are undermined by a technological process rather than by meaningful free choice, Stress Management rationality, or the inherent merit or value of the ideas or propositions being presented. How Do They Work? Macromineral The tactics used to create undue psychological and social Deficiencies and Acid- influence, often by means involving anxiety and stress, fall into

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Base Disorders seven main categories.

Coercive Mind Control TACTIC 1 Tactics Increase suggestibility and "soften up" the individual through Psychological specific hypnotic or other suggestibility-increasing techniques Harassment at Work such as: Extended audio, visual, verbal, or tactile fixation drills, Excessive exact repetition of routine activities, Sleep restriction Tools & Docs and/or Nutritional restriction. Downloads TACTIC 2 Terms of use Establish control over the person's social environment, time and sources of social support by a system of often- excessive rewards and punishments. Social isolation is promoted. Contact with family and friends is abridged, as is contact with persons who do not share group-approved attitudes. Economic and other dependence on the group is fostered.

TACTIC 3

Prohibit disconfirming information and non supporting opinions in group communication. Rules exist about permissible topics to discuss with outsiders. Communication is highly controlled. An "in-group" language is usually constructed.

TACTIC 4

Make the person re-evaluate the most central aspects of his or her experience of self and prior conduct in negative ways. Efforts are designed to destabilize and undermine the subject's basic consciousness, reality awareness, world view, emotional control and defense mechanisms. The subject is guided to reinterpret his or her life's history and adopt a new version of causality.

TACTIC 5

Create a sense of powerlessness by subjecting the person to intense and frequent actions and situations which undermine the person's confidence in himself and his judgment.

TACTIC 6

Create strong aversive emotional arousals in the subject by use of nonphysical punishments such as intense humiliation, loss of privilege, social isolation, social status changes, intense guilt, anxiety, manipulation and other techniques.

TACTIC 7

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Intimidate the person with the force of group-sanctioned secular psychological threats. For example, it may be suggested or implied that failure to adopt the approved attitude, belief or consequent behavior will lead to severe punishment or dire consequences such as physical or mental illness, the reappearance of a prior physical illness, drug dependence, economic collapse, social failure, divorce, disintegration, failure to find a mate, etc.

These tactics of psychological force are applied to such a severe degree that the individual's capacity to make informed or free choices becomes inhibited. The victims become unable to make the normal, wise or balanced decisions which they most likely or normally would have made, had they not been unknowingly manipulated by these coordinated technical processes. The cumulative effect of these processes can be an even more effective form of undue influence than pain, torture, drugs or the use of physical force and physical and legal threats.

How does Coercive Psychological Persuasion Differ from Other Kinds of Influence?

Coercive psychological systems are distinguished from benign social learning or peaceful persuasion by the specific conditions under which they are conducted. These conditions include the type and number of coercive psychological tactics used, the severity of environmental and interpersonal manipulation, and the amount of psychological force employed to suppress particular unwanted behaviors and to train desired behaviors.

Coercive force is traditionally visualized in physical terms. In this form it is easily definable, clear-cut and unambiguous. Coercive psychological force unfortunately has not been so easy to see and define. The law has been ahead of the physical sciences in that it has allowed that coercion need not involve physical force. It has recognized that an individual can be threatened and coerced psychologically by what he or she perceives to be dangerous, not necessarily by that which is dangerous.

Law has recognized that even the threatened action need not be physical. Threats of economic loss, social ostracism and ridicule, among other things, are all recognized by law, in varying contexts, as coercive psychological forces.

Why are Coercive Psychological Systems Harmful?

Coercive psychological systems violate our most fundamental concepts of basic human rights. They violate rights of individuals

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that are guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and affirmed by many declarations of principle worldwide.

By confusing, intimidating and silencing their victims, those who profit from these systems evade exposure and prosecution for actions recognized as harmful and which are illegal in most countries such as: fraud, false imprisonment, undue influence, involuntary servitude, intentional infliction of emotional distress, outrageous conduct and other tortuous acts.

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Psychological Harassment At Work Home Ivan Pavlov Please note that the following has been taken directly from the Psychological Commission des Normes du Quebec (Quebec Labor Standards) Manipulation and applies to workers in this Canadian province. It has been Degrading Themes copied here for you and it may be out of date. Positivity Technology Psychological harassment at work Advanced What is psychological harassment in the work place? Technologies

Words Psychological harassment is vexatious behaviour that manifests Sleep Deprivation itself in the form of conduct, verbal comments, actions or Suicide Factors gestures characterized by the following four criteria: All Videos They are repetitive*; Psychology Videos They are hostile or unwanted; The Brain Video They affect the person’s dignity or psychological integrity, and Bullying Videos They result in a harmful work environment. Bullying Bullying What To Do Sexual harassment at work is also included in this definition. Bullying Case Example What is vexatious behaviour? Bullying FAQ It is humiliating or abusive behaviour that lowers a person’s self- Bullying Wiki esteem or causes him torment. Bullying vs. Mobbing Bullying Reporting It is also behaviour that exceeds what the person considers to be System appropriate and reasonable in the performance of his work.

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Base Disorders Isolating the person: no longer talking to him at all, denying his presence, distancing him from others. Coercive Mind Control Destabilizing the person: making fun of his convictions, his tastes Tactics and his political choices.

Psychological Management rights and normal conditions of employment Harassment at Work Psychological harassment must not be confused with the normal Tools & Docs exercise of the employer’s management rights, in particular his Downloads right to assign tasks and his right to reprimand or impose disciplinary sanctions. Terms of use Insofar as the employer does not exercise these rights in an abusive or discriminatory manner, his actions do not constitute psychological harassment.

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Prevention in the undertaking remains the best means of combating psychological harassment. It is the employer’s responsibility to take reasonable steps to prevent psychological harassment and to put a stop to such behaviour when it is brought to his knowledge.

Sound management practices

Promote respectful interpersonal communication. Manage the members of his staff fairly. Take quick and appropriate action to manage conflicts; do not allow the situation to deteriorate. Clearly define the responsibilities and tasks of each employee. Put in place in his undertaking a procedure that is known, efficient, credible and adapted to reality, to allow persons to report cases of harassment confidentially. Resort, in certain cases, to specialized resources to help put a stop to a psychological harassment situation and to prevent other such situations from arising.

What should you do in the event of psychological harassment at work?

Wherever possible:

Talk about the problem you are experiencing with someone that you are close to, a person that you trust. Do not remain isolated; Express very clearly to the person who is the source of the unwanted behaviour your wish to see such behaviour cease immediately.

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Check inside the undertaking if there is a procedure making it possible to report the unwanted behaviour confidentially. Bring the matter to the attention of your employer who must put a stop to this behaviour by taking appropriate steps.

The Act respecting Labor Standards provides a recourse in the event of psychological harassment at work, which is available to every employee, whether unionized, non-unionized, or at the senior managerial level. The Act sets a 90-day period to file a complaint

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Reportage au Point Mardi 30 juillet Le cauchemar du harcèlement moral

On a tous entendu parler de burnout, d'abus de pouvoir, de harcèlement sexuel. Depuis peu, les spécialistes ont mis un nom sur un autre phénomène plus sournois : le harcèlement psychologique au

travail. Dans la majorité des cas, un patron cible une subalterne, mais il existe aussi des cas de harcèlements entre collègues. Aucune statistique fiable n'existe sur l'ampleur de ce problème, mais comme nous le montrent Julie Miville-Dechêne et Robert Verge, ces conséquences sont dévastatrices.

- Trois témoignages - Effets sur la santé

Colette Bouchard est, de l'avis de tous, une secrétaire Le harcèlement peut provoquer dans modèle. Pendant 10 ans, elle a travaillé pour le même un premier temps des symptômes de

organisme, sous les ordres de différents présidents. Tout stress : nervosité, irritabilité, anxiété, allait bien jusqu'à l'entrée en troubles du sommeil, brûlures scène d'une nouvelle patronne d'estomac, hypertension artérielle, qui dès qu'elles étaient seules, douleurs musculaires, etc. Au bout de la critiquait. Mme Bouchard quelques mois, ces symptômes

rentrait chez elle chaque soir peuvent se transformer en troubles un peu plus ébranlée, isolée psychiques manifestes. Certains aussi car ses collègues réagissent avec une hyper-combativité croyaient à un simple conflit de qui les fait souvent qualifier de personnalité. paranoïaques. D'autres sont envahis

par un sentiment d'épuisement et de Le sort s'est acharné sur Colette Bouchard car le fatigue chronique, une baisse de

successeur de sa patronne l'agresse à son tour... Mme l'estime de soi, pouvant évoluer vers Bouchard ne voyant plus d'issue, elle a remis sa la dépression. démission. Les états dépressifs peuvent Colette Bouchard a eu la présence d'esprit de tout noter entraîner : jour après jour. Épaulée par son avocat, elle a porté · des troubles de l'attention et de la plainte pour congédiement injuste devant la Commissaire mémoire du travail. Des collègues et même une de ses ex- · un sentiment de découragement, de patronnes ont témoigné en sa faveur. Après la pessimisme, de culpabilité, présentation de cette preuve, l'employeur a choisi de d'isolement régler le litige à l'amiable. Son avocat croit que les lois · une perte de confiance en soi, du existantes suffisent pour défendre les véritables victimes. sens du métier. À son avis, faciliter davantage les recours risquerait d'amener un déluge de fausses plaintes. Leurs conséquences possibles sont une atteinte de la personnalité, la Le ministre du travail doit justement décider bientôt s'il dégradation de la santé, l'invalidité, la faut des changements législatifs ou tout au moins une perte de l'emploi, le suicide. campagne de sensibilisation. source : INRS Lise Chagnon travaillait depuis 30 ans au Métro Bélair quand ses patrons ont embauché un nouveau directeur- général, Marcel Chalifoux, personnage au long casier judiciaire. Le syndicat craignait que Chalifoux ait pour

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mandat de se débarrasser des employés les plus anciens, donc les mieux payés. Lise Chagnon, responsable de la boulangerie, 'est une femme forte qui n'a pas la langue dans sa poche. Elle dit que Marcel Chalifoux lui a d'abord demandé d'être son porte-panier, avant de se retourner contre elle. On fouille dans ses papiers, on remet en cause sa compétence. Elle a vécu cinq mois d'enfer.

Arrivée au bout de son rouleau, la syndiquée utilise un recours réservé jusque là aux milieux de travail physiquement dangereux. Le «droit de refus» oblige la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité au travail à faire enquête pendant que la plaignante est chez elle. Du jour au lendemain, Lise Chagnon se retrouve sans travail pour la première fois de sa vie. La CSST rejette sa plainte, ce qui est fréquent aux dires des avocats de la défense. La Commission ne comptabilise pas les causes de harcèlement refusées. Lors d'un congrès nord-américain sur la violence, la CSST a tout de même admis que ses enquêteurs manquent d'expérience dans ce domaine.

Lise Chagnon est donc déboutée par la CSST. Le Marché Bélair la congédie, mais son syndicat porte sa cause en Les diverses formes du appel. Pour enfin obtenir justice, Lise Chagnon a dû harcèlement moral endurer 21 jours d'audiences à la Commission des lésions professionnelles de Joliette. Elle-même a témoigné ● refus de toute communication pendant quatre jours mais elle

a aussi dû écouter ses anciens ● absence de consignes ou patrons tenter de miner sa consignes contradictoires crédibilité. privation de travail ou surcroît de travail L'effort en valait la peine, Lise

Chagnon a gagné sur tous les ● fronts. Un jugement sans tâches dépourvues de sens ou précédent reconnaît qu'elle a missions au-dessus des été harcelée psychologiquement et qu'elle pouvait compétences exercer un droit de refus car sa santé mentale était menacée. Deux ans après l'avoir mise à la porte, le ● Marché Bélair a dû la réembaucher. Son employeur mise au placard, conditions de Bernard Bélair a refusé de nous accorder une entrevue à travail dégradantes la caméra. Malgré le jugement, il continue de nier toute responsabilité. ● critiques incessantes, sarcasmes répétés La victoire de Lise Gagnon est plutôt l'exception que la

règle. ● brimades, humiliations Marcel, qui était machiniste depuis 20 ans dans la même compagnie, a fait une dépression. Quinze mois plus tard, ● Marcel se suicidait. C'était un homme fragile. Sa propre propos calomnieux, insultes, mère s'est enlevée la vie, mais sa veuve croit que le menaces harcèlement a contribué à le démolir. Il ne parlait que de cela à son psychiatre juste avant de mettre fin à ses source : INRS jours.

Marcel ne s'était pas plaint à son syndicat.

- Tentative de définition -

« Le harcèlement moral est fait de petites choses qui prises séparément ne sont pas graves mais qui deviennent destructrices par leur répétition. Ça peut-être également des atteintes à la dignité, se moquer systématiquement d'une personne, l'injurier, tout un tas de choses particulièrement humiliantes, et puis c'est aussi l'isolement, la mise a l'écart. »

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La psychiatre Marie-France Hirigoyen, auteur de Le harcèlement moral : La violence perverse au quotidien, a lancé en France en 1998 un vaste débat de société qui a débouché sur une loi pénalisant le harcèlement psychologique.

La juridiction française

« Aucune personne ne doit subir des agissements répétés qui dégradent ses conditions de travail, portent atteinte à ses droits et à sa dignité, altèrent sa santé physique ou mentale ou compromettent son avenir professionnel » art L.122-49 alinea 1 du code du travail.

Mais attention, tous ceux qui se disent harcelés ne le sont pas forcément. « Dans le harcèlement moral, il y a une notion de malveillance, c'est à dire que d'une façon directe ou indirecte, le but c'est de se débarrasser de quelqu'un qui gène ou de le casser psychologiquement pour qu'il ne prenne pas trop de place. C'est différent du stress ou de la pression au travail ou on a envie que les gens soient performants et progressent. »

Curieusement, il n'y a pas de portrait type du harcelé. Ce ne sont pas des gens particulièrement faibles. Ils sont souvent des employés de longue date, très attachés à leur travail - ça se produit à tous les échelons de la hiérarchie. «Tout le monde peut être victime quel que soit le profil psychologique, néanmoins, on vise plus particulièrement les personnes qui sont atypiques, pas tout à fait conformes, ou qui sont je dirais, trop honnêtes, trop scrupuleuses. »

« La difficulté, c'est que ce sont des agressions subtiles, qui laissent peu de traces, donc en général, quand on est visé, on est déstabilisé, on ne sait pas comment se défendre. »

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Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find

Two key areas of the brain appear to respond to the pain of rejection in the same way as physical pain, a UCLA-led team of psychologists reports in the Oct. 10 issue of Science.

"While everyone accepts that physical pain is real, people are tempted to think that social pain is just in their heads," said Matthew D. Lieberman, one of the paper's three authors and an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA. "But physical and social pain may be more similar than we realized."

"In the English language we use physical metaphors to describe social pain like 'a broken heart' and 'hurt feelings,'" said Naomi I. Eisenberger, a UCLA Ph.D. candidate in social psychology and the study's lead author. "Now we see that there is good reason for this."

Eisenberger and Lieberman used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity in 13 UCLA undergraduates while the students played a computer ball-tossing game designed to provoke feelings of social exclusion.

In Cyberball, two computer figures are able to throw a virtual ball to each other and to the game's human player. Although the activities of the figures are entirely computer-generated, the undergraduates were led to believe that they corresponded to other student players elsewhere.

"It's really the most boring game you can imagine, except at one point one of the two computer people stop throwing the ball to the real player," Lieberman said.

In the first of three rounds, experimenters instructed UCLA undergraduates just to watch the two other players because "technical difficulties" prevented them from participating. In the second round, the students were included in the ball-tossing game, but they were excluded from the last three-quarters of the third round by the other players. While the undergraduates later reported feeling excluded in the third round, fMRI scans revealed elevated activity during both the first and third rounds in the anterior cingulate. Located in the center of the brain, the cingulate has been implicated in generating the adverse experience of physical pain.

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be similar to the experience of physical pain," Lieberman said.

When the undergraduates were conscious of being snubbed, cingulate activity directly responded to the amount of distress that they later reported feeling at being excluded.

The researchers also detected elevated levels of activity in another portion of the brain -- the right ventral prefrontal cortex -- but only during the game's third round. Located behind the forehead and eyes, the prefrontal cortex is associated with thinking about emotions and with self-control.

"The folks who had the most activity in the prefrontal cortex had the least amount of activity in the cingulate, making us think that one area is inhibiting one or the other," Lieberman said.

The psychologists theorize that the pain of being rejected may have evolved because of the importance of social bonds for the survival of most mammals.

"Going back 50,000 years, social distance from a group could lead to death and it still does for most infant mammals," Lieberman said. "We may have evolved a sensitivity to anything that would indicate that we're being excluded. This automatic alarm may be a signal for us to reestablish social bonds before harm befalls us."

"These findings show how deeply rooted our need is for social connection," Eisenberger said. "There's something about exclusion from others that is perceived as being as harmful to our survival as something that can physically hurt us, and our body automatically knows this."

The explanation is consistent with past research on mammals. Hamster mothers with damaged cingulates no longer take steps to keep their pups near and infant squirrel monkeys similarly affected no longer produce a spontaneous cry when separated from their mothers. In human mothers, fMRIs have shown that infant cries increase activity in the cingulate.

The prefrontal cortex, meanwhile, has been found to be key to thinking in words and controlling behavior, urges, emotions and thought. So researchers theorize that the prefrontal cortex may inhibit the cingulate as opposed to the other way around.

"Verbalizing distress may partially shut down areas of the brain that register distress," Lieberman said. "The regulating abilities of the prefrontal cortex may be why therapy and expressing painful feelings in poems and diaries is therapeutic."

But humans may need a conscious awareness of social exclusion to activate this buffering mechanism, the researchers said. The requirement would explain why the prefrontal cortex did not become activated during the first round of Cyberball,

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when the students were led to believe that a computer glitch prevented them from being included in the ball toss.

"If we have no reason to consciously believe that we're being excluded," Lieberman said, "we tend not to respond and regulate."

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The study's third author is Kipling D. Williams, a psychology professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Williams is the architect of Cyberball.

The project received funding from National Institute of Mental Health.

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BREAKING NEWS!!! TODAY 8/28/06 CT SUPREME COURT OVERTURNED JUDITH SCRUGGS CRIMINAL CONVICTION THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO BELIEVED IN DANIEL AND JUDY!!!

J. Daniel Scruggs

A 12 year old student, slight in stature with a brilliant IQ of 139 attended Washington Middle School in Meriden CT . He hung himself in his bedroom closet (a walk-in closet J.Daniel had made a play fort out of ) on January 2, 2002 rather than face another day of living hell at his school. The last day J. Daniel would go to school was 11/28/01. As the school closed for the winter holidays, J. Daniel was absent 44 days and tardy 29 days. Despite his brilliant intellect, Daniel left his entrusted educational institution with all failing grades. Shortly after his mother, Judith Scruggs, filed an intent to sue the city of Meriden for this neglect and four months after Daniel’s suicide, she was arrested.

Although the gatekeepers- the Police, the Prosecuter, the Judge, School Authorities, the PTA President, the Mayor, Department of Children & Family Services desperate to protect themselves were aligning themselves accordingly, there would be nothing, not one single word that could convince the world the inhumane treatment J.Daniel received at school was not a legal and moral crime.

"If the Child Advocate has proof that meets the test of time, they can come forward." (Meriden Police Sgt.Lenny Caponigro Meriden Record Journal 1/25/03)

On 10/6/03 a jury of five men and one woman found Judith guilty of risk of injury to a minor for willfully and purposefully failing to provide her son with a safe and healthy living environment on and between August 1, 2001 and January 2, 2002.

How can one conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the prosecution’s only physical evidence of several pictures of the home taken by police on January 2, 2002, support the time frame of the charge? No one can. Furthermore, there is no scientific or medical data indicating that cluttered, messy, dirty homes cause children to commit suicide. However, there is overwhelming data which indicates that bullying does.

And how about the two unsheathed kitchen knives and homemade spear police found in Daniel’s room on 1/2/2002? Judith Scruggs told police she allowed Daniel to keep them in his room as he had told her he felt safer having them due to the burglaries in the neighborhood. Was this a case of a neglectful mother or the case of a victimized child who had manifested such fear from the long term systematic verbal and physical bullying he was unable to stop and that not one adult would stop? The magnitude of fear, hopelessness, and lack of self -worth placed onto Daniel parallels that of many bullycide’s across the globe.

Four of the six jurors, Kirschmann, Diaz, Hubbard and Giardina all said the guilty verdict on the risk-of-injury count was a direct result of police testimony that Daniel kept knives in his room. (Meriden Record Journal 10/7/03)

Daniel committed suicide by using his suit tie to hang himself, not a knife or a spear. We know that parents of all walks of life, varied socioeconomic status and domestic and hygenic habits have a multitude of potentially dangerous items in the place of their choice within their homes and in many cases firearms. We know that in many of these same homes a child has committed suicide with one of these items or firearms. We know none of these parents have been arrested for contributing to their child's suicide because of their socioeconomic status, domestic or hygenic habits, or for allowing the item or firearm used by the child to complete the suicide to be in their home. So why, would police choose to reach down in the case of Daniel's suicide? The answer to the question was clear for me and more than likely it is to you as well. L.T.

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"They missed the whole point", says CT State Representative Mary Mushinsky of the jurors guilty verdict.

Face The State News Show 10/03

Judith Scruggs, convicted felon, with no prior criminal history, faces up to ten years in prison for the suicide of her son.

Many have asked what has happened since Judith Scruggs was convicted on October 6, 2003.

Since Judith Scruggs’ conviction the following information has been publicized:

Judith’s attorney, Reese Norris files motion for a new trial based on; juror misconduct and bias, not replacing a juror, not allowing the jury to be polled for unanimity, and a motion to acquit claiming the prosecution failed to provide expert testimony that a cluttered and messy home endangers the physical and mental well being of a child.

Vincent Giardina, a CT DOT employee and one of 6 jurors to convict Judith Scruggs, who reporters, Stowe, Makwana, & Griffin claim told them after the conviction that Scruggs’ intention to sue the city figured in on his decision to convict her. Two other jurors, Paul Kirschman and Thomas Diaz who were also questioned by reporters and testified before Judge Frazzini in a public hearing over Giardina’s alleged misconduct, said that Giardina did bring up the possibility of a lawsuit during deliberations but both told Giardina to dismiss it, as it was not part of the evidence presented to them during the trial.

Judith is fired from Wal-Mart after being suspended since her arrest because of negative publicity.

Gary Brandl, a former teacher, Sheehan High School softball coach and the leading police detective who issued the arrest of Judith Scruggs, is the first cousin of Washington Middle School Guidance Director, Olga Brandl's husband . The veteran police officer and detective did not inform his supervisor, Captain Greg Kosienski, the prosecutor or the Judge of his relationship with Olga Brandl. This conflict of interest went unchallenged.

"It is unusual for a police department to reach down in a situation like that", said

Paul Johnson Deanof Public Safety at the University of New Haven. (Meriden Record Journal 5/5/02)

After talking with her attorney and in consideration of her financial state, Judith reluctantly chooses to accept a severance package and resigns from Washington Middle School as a paraprofessional rather than risk being fired if Board members vote her unfit for the job in light of her conviction- which would leave her with no monetary compensation. A choice of survival for Judith who says she didn’t do anything wrong and was put on paid suspension following her arrest.

Judith is in a car accident which left her with a totaled car and broken wrist.

Judith is stopped by police for driving an unregistered car with plates that did not belong to the car. Judith was driving home from her part time job at Stop & Shop around midnight when she was arrested. Judith stated, “I had to get to work, I needed a car and it was too cold to walk”.

Judith is evicted from her apartment which she called home for nearly a decade, as she no longer is able to pay her rent and now lives with close friends.

Judge Frazzini’s wife, Sheila Huddleston, a partner in the Hartford law firm Shipman & Goodwin, provided legal services to the Meriden Board of Education when it was preparing a written response to a report by the Office of the CT Child Advocate which severely criticized Meriden School administrators for having failed to protect Daniel.

Huddleston’s firm also advised the Meriden Board of Education on whether to fire Judith from her job as a paraprofessional. Judge Frazzini said his wife had no involvement in any of the Scruggs work nor was she aware that her firm had any connection with the Scruggs case until February 2004 when the Meriden Board of Education asked Huddleston’s firm to represent them in the federal civil suit against Judith Scruggs. Frazzini further states at that time his wife's firm called for an internal check for possible conflicts of interest and has since declined the Meriden Board of Education’s request to represent them. Judith’s attorney and the prosecutor met with Frazzini in a private conference to discuss this matter. In the conference Frazzini did not disqualify himself and both attorney’s agreed.

Frazzini called a brief public session to put the issue on the record. He asked both attorney’s if they objected and they said no. After both attorney’s said no, Judith responded to the Judge’s question by saying she also had no objection.

"It seems rather dubious to me that literally the rest of the world knew the time frame of Judith's trial, but the Judge's wife and the attorney's in her firm were not." B.C. Sweden

The city of Meriden has since retained Attorney Claudia Baio of Baio & Associates in Rocky Hill, CT.

Judge Frazzini denies all motions for a new trial and acquittal .

Judith files a civil suit in Hartford, CT U.S. District Court seeking damages from school personnel who, the suit claims, violated Scruggs' sons civil rights by failing to protect him from bullies and for not providing for him the education he was entitled to by law. The suit names former school superintendent, Elizabeth M. Ruocco, The Meriden, CT Board of Education, Washington Middle School vice principal Mary Beth Iacobelli and guidance counselor Donna Mule.

"Some or all of the defendants had the power to prevent or aid in preventing the acts violating J.Daniel's civil rights, privileges and immunities, yet neglected to do so, resulting in physical and emotional injuries to the plaintiff's decedent," the suit states.

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These failures, the suit states, caused Daniel severe psychological trauma, physical pain and suffering, fear for his life and well being, and a fear of bullying.

Federal Judge Peter C. Dorsey has been assigned to preside over the civil case.

"Hey, this is America, and she can do what she wants," Meriden Board of Education President ,

Frank Kogut said. "Anybody can sue anyone and

people do it hoping they can get some money". (Meriden Record Journal 12/23/03)

Judith is sentenced on May 14, 2004; Judge Frazzini gives her an 18 month suspended sentence, (no prison time) five years probation, 100 hours of community service, manditory psychological evaluation and treatment and if she were to become responsible for , or supervise a child under 16, she must take a parenting class.

Judith's attorney states he will file an appeal.-due within 20 days after the sentencing.

Judith applies for a public defender as she cannot afford to pay her attorney, Reese Norris, for her appeal. Norris states that he will be available to help the public defender "without compensation". However, it is likely that Norris will continue to represent Judith in her civil suit.

Meriden Superior Court Judge Philip A. Scarpellino grants the request of Judith Scruggs and her attorney, M.H.Reese Norris, to have a public defender handle her appeal. (Record Journal Archives)

This egregious conviction sets a dangerous precedent for parents and leaves little hope for victims and bystanders who are forced to endure repeated institutional abuse and neglect. Although the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate also severely criticized Washington Middle School Administrators and staff, DCF, and CSSD for failing to protect J. Daniel and provide him the education he was entitled to by law, none have been held criminally accountable, including the bullies who inflicted systematic physical and psychological harm or their parents. L.T (Record Journal Editorial)

May 14, 2004 Conviction Protest

Parents who are concerned about the clear miscarriage of justice, the safety of their children in the public school system, and the lack of accountability for all those deemed culpable are encouraged to attend. Your contribution could prevent the tragic pain and unfortunate death of another child. (L.T. Record Journal Editorial)

Pictures from the Judith Scruggs conviction protest

Standout..."It is from countless diverse acts of courage & belief, that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope; and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance" (RFK)

Thank you to all who joined in protest!

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Let the congressmen and women in CT know how outraged you are that this

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mother is being used as a scapegoat!!

http://www.ct.gov.com

You may also write the Honorable Judge Stephen Frazzini at:

Meriden Superior Court

54 West Main Street

Meriden, CT 06450

"The thing that bothered me about this case so greatly was that the child

was in full view of everyone for so long". CTState Rep.MaryMushinsky

When emergency staff and police arrived at the Scruggs home after receiving a 911 call from Daniel’s sister who took her found her 12 year old brother hanging lifeless from a necktie, Judith Scruggs daughter to a neighbor’s home to be consoled while she went back to her son. As she arrived back at her home the police stopped her before she could go in and told her she could not return because her home was a “crime scene”. Although Daniel was found with a pencil near him, a suicide note was never reported to be found by the police.

CT Office of the Child Advocate Investigation of the Death of Daniel Scruggs Report

What the jury did not hear or see was the DCF evidence:

On 12/4/01, the same day Judith met with school officials during a meeting where she expressed concern about Daniel’s treatment by student peers, (the documented minutes reflect her statements; That Daniel had been “frequently assaulted in the classrooms, hallways, he was punched, kicked, had desks slammed into him and his hair pulled so violently that his head had snapped back”.) a DCF social worker had finally met with Judith and Daniel at the Scruggs home. It had been six weeks since the initial referral and four weeks before Daniel would commit suicide.

***No reference to this documented meeting indicating Daniel's abuse were found in the 10 page

police affadavit used to prosecute Judith scruggs. (Meriden Record Journal 1/03)

"We are taught to put only enough information in an affadavit to establish probable cause'"

(Meriden Police Sgt. Lenny Caponigro Meriden Record journal 1/25/03)

"If we uncovered that this young man had been assaulted I think we certainly

would investigate those allegations". (Meriden Police Sgt .Lenny Caponigro MeridenRecordJournal 1/03

The entries in the case file by the social worker for that day are as follows:

The worker spoke with Daniel about going to school; She asked him “if there were any chance that he would try and get back to school and he said that he didn’t think so. He said he could not deal with the kids because they were harassing him even more. He said that his Game Boy was stolen and nothing was done about it. He was asked if things could be different if he was at another school and he said maybe. He was told that his worker would bring him some information about a school that he may want to look into and he said fine”.

Daniel’s mother stated that “she was frustrated with the school…she understands they can only do so much but she said that her son really has a problem with children there and is afraid to return”.

The worker spoke with Daniel’s sister who reported that she had a friend at the middle school and was told “Daniel was threatened by a kid in his class that told him that he would kill him”. She further explained thet their mother tried to get Daniel up for school but he refused to go “because he is really scared”.

The worker noted that she herself thought that "J. Daniel is a really good kid but because of his small stature and the fact that he is very timid, he gets seriously picked on which makes it difficult to handle the children at his school”. She further noted a description of the Scruggs home . “The Scruggs’ home is very crowded with furniture as mother is trying to find a place for her parents belongings as she has kept a lot of things since her death. The children have proper space and bedding there is adequate food in the house”.

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Sadly, this DCF social worker never returned with the new school information promised to Daniel.

On or about 12/27/01 the Scruggs’ case would be closed and the allegation of neglect unsubstantiated.

J.Daniel qualified for special education services in the second grade based on the discrepency model (VIQ/PIQ) as outlined by the state of CT. According to psychological and educational testing he exhibited very strong skills in math and science, verbal language and reasoning skills but showed considerable weakness in the areas of reading and written language. J. Daniel received next to nothing in intervention services for the remainder of his school years.

In fact, according to his educational records his special needs were grossly neglected. The obvious path to failure. Who is accountable for this?

On 3/1/2001(6th grade) Daniel was suspended 3 days from school for fighting with another student.

According to an administrative note written by the school principal, on 4/12/01 (6th grade) Daniel received a two day suspension for getting into a verbal argument with two other students. Got involved with a third who he pushed. Student then pushed back and fight ensued. The note indicated that the other students had reported that Daniel was choked, put up against the wall, stomped on, kicked and punched across the face. School health records documented that a nurse saw Daniel after a fight and no injuries were reported.

"If we uncovered that this young man had been assaulted I think we certainly

would investigate those allegations". (Meriden Police sgt. Lenny Coponigro Meriden Record Journal 1/03)

Daniel left 6th grade with plummeting grades of D's and C's. He was absent 37 days and tardy 24.

On 10/15/01 (7th grade) Judith Sruggs met with school officials concerning her son's refusal to go to school, bath and wear clean clothes. She asked that they address the issue of Daniel being bullied.

School officials blamed Daniel for the harassment and gave Judith a list of community providers to persue servicesfor her son.

On 10/18/01 (7th grade) Daniel received student discipline for pushing another student. It was reported to the OCA investigator that the student who pushed Daniel was a bully to him as well as other children, but he especially targeted Daniel.

On 10/24/01 (7th grade) Daniel was transferred to a program for socially and emotionally disturbed children housed in a trailer behind his school. The program was designed to accomodate children with disruptive behaviors who might otherwise have been suspended or expelled from mainstream classes. It was in the trailer that someone stole Daniel's Game Boy.

Daniel stood on his desk and screamed out of control.

On 11/5/01 (7th grade) Daniel was involved in an altercation with another student that had stolen his book. Daniel had chased the child. A third student hit Daniel and he in return pushed him back. Daniel received a two day detention.

Daniel never went back to school after 11/28/01. He was absent 44 days and tardy 29 in less than three months of school. This 12 year old boy had given up the fight for his life.

"I am confident our schools have quality support services and staff, and did their best

to get the family and individual in contact with

the necessary support services, " says Mayor D. Benigni who is

also the assistant principal of a Berlin, CT High School. (Meriden Record Journal 1/13/02)

On 12/4/01 Judith Scruggs met with school officials and she expressed her concerns over the abuse Daniel was facing. School officials reccommended that Daniel be tested and evaluated in the following areas:

Individually administered test to assess intellectual functioning,

Individually administered test to assess acheivement in reading, math and spelling,

Projective tests to assess social emotional status,

Individual assessmentof adaptive/school behavior to be done by a consulting psychiatrist.

Judith Scruggs consented to the testing.

The recommended testing never took place. There is no evidence that any tests were ever scheduled or that a psychiatrist was engaged to conduct any of them. There was no one assigned to coordinate and ensure that Daniel was available to be tested or that accomodations would be arranged for his testing.

That translates into; Nobody cared.

Nobody was made to care.

Less than four weeks later Daniel was finally dead.

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Meriden Board member Leonard Suzio said he and other board members never discussed bullying with the administration.

"None of that ever came up in executive session."

(Meriden Record Journal 5/5/02

"It was a tragedy and we want the kids to forget about this."

(Cathy Abercrombie-President, Meriden citywide Parent Teacher Organization

(was elected a seat in CT House of Representatives in 2005 )

"Bullying is not a crime. What are you going to charge a bully with?"

(Meriden Police Sgt. Lenny Caponigro Meriden Record Journal 5/5/02)

"I was satisfied that the school did what it was supposed to do".

(Meriden Superintendent Elizabeth Ruocco Meriden Record Journal 1//13/02)

In 2003/04 Washington Middle School reported the following number of incidents to the CT state Board of Education: 39-threats/intimidation/assault/aggression 16-non sexual harassment/bullying/racial slurs 105-fighting/altercation 12-weapons

Police logs for Washington Middle School for the same time period: 3-juvenile complaints 5-breach of peace 3-threats 1-disorderly conduct

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